Textile vs Tapestry - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between textile and tapestry

is that textile is (usually plural) cloth produced from a fabric while tapestry is a heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.

As an adjective textile

is (naturism) clothing compulsive.

As a verb tapestry is

(intransitive) to decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry.

textile

English

Noun

(en noun)

(usually plural) Cloth produced from a fabric.

(naturism) a non-nudist

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* (naturism) naturist

Adjective

(en adjective)

(naturism) clothing compulsive.

A textile beach

Antonyms

* (naturism) clothing optional, nude, naturist ----

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.}}