gobelin

A wall-hanging about 19 2/3 feet square, executed in gobelin embroidery, is unique and beautiful.

Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 1894

Gathered around a small golden snack table, as if on a wall gobelin, were the chiefs of the royal guard, who were famous for their duels and amorous adventures.

Hard to be a god Strugatski, Arkadi & Strugatski, Boris 1973

He wheeled around abruptly and pulled down a gobelin that had been hanging behind his back.

Hard to be a god Strugatski, Arkadi & Strugatski, Boris 1973

"The sun is about to set," he declared as he regarded a gobelin representing a sunrise.

Hard to be a god Strugatski, Arkadi & Strugatski, Boris 1973

With these words he tore the gobelin off the wall, wrapped it around his entire body and stumbled noisily over to the comer under the big chandelier.

Hard to be a god Strugatski, Arkadi & Strugatski, Boris 1973

For effect, no one can deny that produced by the savage in war paint and feathers is more startling than the man wearing the conventional garb of civilization, or that the stars and stripes have greater attraction than the modified tones of a gobelin tapestry or a Persian rug.

Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899

A very good effect is produced by using Chiné d'or D. M.C [A] red, blue, or green for the gobelin stitch, and a uniform pale tint for the cut open-work.

Encyclopedia of Needlework Th��r��se de Dillmont 1868

-- Damask, or gobelin stitches, are given in figs. 152, 153, 154.

Encyclopedia of Needlework Th��r��se de Dillmont 1868

It was connected with the Archbishop's palace by large, covered, wooden galleries, adorned within by gobelin tapestry.

The Court of the Empress Josephine Arthur L��on Imbert de Saint-Amand 1867

= Par´dalo =, the demon-steed given to Iniguez Guerra, by his gobelin mother, that he might ride to Tolēdo and liberate his father, Don Diego

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853