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Tapestry vs Wallpaper - What's the difference?

tapestry | wallpaper |

As nouns the difference between tapestry and wallpaper

is that tapestry is a heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls while wallpaper is (uncountable) decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings.

As verbs the difference between tapestry and wallpaper

is that tapestry is (intransitive) to decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry while wallpaper is to cover (a wall, a room, etc ) with wallpaper.

tapestry

English

Noun

(tapestries)
  • A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry -hung wall behind.}}
  • (by extension)  Anything with variegated or complex details.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=January-February
    • , author=Nancy Langston , title=The Fraught History of a Watery World , volume=101, issue=1, page=59 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}

    Verb

  • (intransitive) To decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1833, author=Adolphus Slade, title=Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, &c. citation
    • , passage=We had run above twenty miles when the sun set, carpeting the sea, and tapestrying the sky with a rare unison of delicate green and golden hues
  • * {{quote-book, year=1854, date=September 13, author=, title=English Note-Books citation
    • , passage=The banqueting-hall, all open to the sky, and with thick curtains of ivy tapestrying the walls, and grass and weeds growing on the arches that overpass it, is indescribably beautiful.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Israel Zangwill, title=The Cockpit: Romantic Drama in Three Acts citation
    • , passage=I present Bosnavina to its Duchess, I kiss the hem of her Majesty's robe and will tapestry her Palace with conquered flags.}}

    See also

    * tapetum lucidum

    wallpaper

    English

    (wikipedia wallpaper)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings.
  • (countable) A style or design of such material.
    • He is letting her select the wallpapers for the whole house.
  • (computing, Microsoft Windows) An image or tiled pattern used as a background to personalize a computer desktop.

    • Synonyms

    *

    Derived terms

    * ingrain wallpaper * woodchip wallpaper

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover (a wall, a room, etc ) with wallpaper.

    • Synonyms

    * (cover with wallpaper) paper