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Bayeux Tapestry
embroidered wall-hanging art depicting the Norman invasion of England
tapestry
thumb|upright=1.5|Weaving a small tapestry on a high-warp loom, 2022, New Zealand right|thumb|One of the tapestries in the series The Hunt of the Unicorn: The Unicorn is Found, circa 1495–1505, [[The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City]]
St. Hedwig's Cathedral
Roman Catholic cathedral in Berlin, Germany
kilim
thumb|Hotamis Kilim (detail), central Anatolia, early 19th century
The Lady and the Unicorn
Collection of medieval tapestries, Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris
St. Gereon's Basilica
church in Cologne
millefleur
right|thumb|300px|The Triumph of Death, or the Three Fates, Flanders|Flemish tapestry with a typical mille-fleurs background, thumb|The birds and animals at inconsistent scales are a feature of the style Millefleur, millefleurs or mille-fleur (French mille-fleurs, literally "thousand flowers") refers to a composition with many different small flowers and plants in the background, usually against a green ground, as though growing in grass. It is primarily associated with European tapestry during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, from about 1400 to 1550, but mostly appears around 1480
Apocalypse Tapestry
tapestry series by Jan Bondol from Bruges in the Château d'Angers
The Hunt of the Unicorn
tapestry series of the late Middle Ages
Jagiellonian tapestries
tapestry collection
Överhogdal tapestries
series of Viking-era tapestries
jajim
alt=Jajim of the Kermanshah Province|thumb|Jajim of the Kermanshah province|Kermanshah Province Jajim (; ; ; ) also spelled as gelims, or jajim-bafi, is a handmade, flat-woven textile made of colored natural fiber which is created and used in the majority of villages and rural areas of Iran. Other locations the Jajim is found include Azerbaijan, Turkey, and India.
Gunthertuch
thumb|The , Diocesan Museum, Bamberg The '''''' () is a Byzantine silk tapestry which represents the triumphal return of a Byzantine Emperor from a victorious campaign. The piece was purchased, or possibly received as a gift, by Gunther von Bamberg, Bishop of Bamberg, during his 1064–65 pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Gunther died on his return journey, and was buried with it in the Bamberg Cathedral. The fabric was rediscovered in 1830, and is now exhibited in the Bamberg Diocesan Museum.
Tapestry of Creation
Romanesque embroidered hanging in Girona Cathedral, Spain
Sampul tapestry
wool wall hanging in two fragments, 2nd century BC - 2nd century CE
k'o-ssu
technique in Chinese silk tapestry weaving
Navajo weaving
production of traditional rugs and blankets of the Navajo people of the Four Corners region, United States
Baldishol Tapestry
tapestry in Oslo, Norway
Valois Tapestries
series of tapestries depicting festivities at the court of France
The Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald
destroyed paintings by Rogier van der Weyden
Hunts of Maximilian
series of tapestries representing the months of the year, extant in several editions
Hestia Tapestry
Byzantine-era pagan tapestry in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection
ryijy
thumb|upright|Ryijy from 1960s Ryijy is a woven Finnish long-tufted tapestry or knotted-pile carpet hanging.
raanu rug
right|thumb|Raanu. Raanu (Finnish) or rátnu (Northern Sámi) is a traditional Finnish and Sámi woven rug used as bed coverings and wall tapestries.