The focus of his sermon, a brown mahogany coffin draped in a beautiful tapestry woven rich with burgundy and yellow silken hues, sat nearby.

Some of the most beautiful tapestries were woven then.

But in the eyes of the gods, the individual threads formed - not a tangled skein - but a beautiful tapestry.

Colored glass fibers spun by the drow of Menzoberranzan had been woven into beautiful tapestries that covered the bone walls.

Yet she only pretended to use the needle she had been given, because it really was a beautiful tapestry, or would be when it was finished.

"There used to be a beautiful tapestry there," she said sadly, nodding at one wall.

Nearby, he continued, hexagonal columns of basalt had fallen, making the scene "like a medieval castle in ruins with a beautiful red tapestry before your eyes."

That sweet young woman who wove the beautiful tapestries, Gemma.

Also beautiful tapestries, china, silver fireplaces and historic relics.

Between these, on both sides, hung a series of tapestries so strange and beautiful that they seemed to glow in the half-light.