Another word that betrays a IE root..
starting in LME, as tapsterie, and earlier, tapicerie, <MFr: tapisserie <OFr: tapis,, carpet, it prob. came from the Iranian taftan, to twist, to spin.. from the IE *temp-, to stretch..

tapestries are not woven on the same sort of looms as most cloth, but on stretchers..


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