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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bluumz, post: 11395437, member: 649&quot;]I agree with it being a jacquard machine-woven textile, the stripey effect (&quot;floats&quot; - unused weft carried across the back of the fabric) on the reverse is a giveaway.</p><p><br /></p><p>About jacquard vs. tapestry:</p><p>Jacquard is the weaving technology/method, while tapestry is the textile. Traditionally, tapestries were a weft-faced weaving with all the warp threads hidden, and were hand-woven with pictorial/narrative designs, (Warp=the vertical set of threads, held tight on the loom. Weft=the horizontal threads woven over and under the warp threads.)</p><p>But the word tapestry is pretty loosely used nowadays, often referring to any textile wall-hanging, and most woven textiles that people call &quot;tapestries&quot; are jacquard-woven. The jacquard machine, a device that is fitted to a loom, was patented in 1804 so it&#039;s been around for over 200 years.</p><p>Yours is a lovely example of what is often called a &quot;jacquard-woven tapestry&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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