Tapestry Musings

This is the British Tapestry Group's blog. Topics range across a broad spectrum of subjects including reflections, questions, proposals, issues and ideas all loosely connected with tapestry weaving and tapestry art. Contributors are drawn from both within the British Tapestry Group and from outside it. There is also a facility for those reading the Tapestry Musings to share their ideas and views on posts via comments, generating interesting discussions. Posting into Tapestry Musings is by invitation - if you would like to make a contribution please contact us at blog@thebritishtapestrygroup.co.uk

Accurate labelling of tapestries

26th February 2026

Who carries the responsibility for ensuring that a taoestry piece is correctly labelled, giving accurate information to the viewer, about its orgins and the materials from which it is made?

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Letting Go

27th November 2025

After a lifetime spent collecting the equipment needed to weave, how do we let go of it? In particular those looms with which we have shared hours of creative exchange. In this blog Tommye Scanlin, USA based tapestry artist, explores what it means to 'let go' of such old friends.

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Tapestry design in an era of AI

3rd July 2025

The tradition of tapestry design through the use of sketchbooks, painting and other media is strong. However, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has opened up possibilities for design through collaboration with digital tools. Are the outcomes as valid as those resulting from sketchbooks, paint or collage?

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The 'Hanging' of a Tapestry

26th November 2024

In creating the Edinburgh Seven Tapestry, artist Christine Borland, and the Dovecot weavers collaborated closely to realise a striking, multidimensional work. However, the manner in which the tapestry was subsequently hung at both the V&A and now, at its permanent home at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, seems to have diminished its impact. Curators play a vital role in ensuring the final manner of display delivers the very best vision of a tapestry. Should they be brought in at an earlier stage and contribute to the overall development of a work?

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How not to design a tapestry?

1st August 2024

Just because a renowned artist has created the design for a tapestry, does that make the resulting work a well-designed tapestry?