A new exhibition, titled "From the Vault: Collecting Tapestries at the Worcester Art Museum" is the culmination of a year-long effort to research, conserve and document the museum's tapestry holdings.

The most important object in Silvia Heyden’s home was her loom. A wooden behemoth, the loom soaked in light from two large windows, occupying a sizable portion of Heyden’s living-dining area the way a ...

Sumptuous, large, heavy and used in centuries past to warm the walls of Europe’s great stone castles and cathedrals, tapestries conjure a long-ago world. They tell expansive tales of courtly life, ...