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Tapestry is one of the oldest of the arts, one of the oldest because in basic technique it is one of the simplest and most obvious, for in the essentials of its weaving it differs from the kind of weaving that a woman does in darning a stocking only in that in tapestry the wefts, the second set of threads woven in at right angles to the fist set of parallel bare strings are pressed together so that where the fabric is finished those strings that are the skeleton of the materials, the warps, are completely covered. Because tapestry is thus made with a basic and primitive kind of weaving, it has been invented and developed independently in many different centers of civilisation in different periods. The oldest pieces of tapestry in existence are fragments, made of linen from Egyptian graves, the earliest dating from about 3500 B.C. But the art must have been old already at that date for these bits? are certainly the product of an