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GEMS FROM THE ARCHIVE: A great eye for colour
 | Updated: 08:10, 09 March 2021
When is a tapestry not a tapestry? Technically, it’s a form of weaving in which the warp threads are hidden in the completed work; weft threads of different colours are worked over portions of the warp to form the design.
The world’s most famous example, the Bayeux Tapestry, is by this definition not a tapestry at all, but an embroidery.
No-one knows when the first tapestries were produced, but it was almost certainly thousands rather than hundreds of years ago.
The Head of Christ, held at Spalding Gentlemen’s Society. ....

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