This places him on a higher plane than that of mere weaver, and makes the term tapissier seem fitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tapestry Book] Reference

When the Raphael cartoons first came to Brussels the new method was a little difficult for the tapissier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tapestry Book] Reference

In times past, the tapissier -- with talent almost as great as that of the cartoonist -- altered at his discretion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tapestry Book] Reference

Such quantity of detail, so many human faces with their varying expressions, could only be woven by the most adroit tapissier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tapestry Book] Reference

Gradually it came about that expedition in a tapissier, the ability to weave quickly, was as great a desideratum as fine work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tapestry Book] Reference

A tapissier was an artist with whom a loom took place of an easel, and whose brush was a shuttle, and whose colour-medium was thread instead of paints.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tapestry Book] Reference

The weave is smooth and even, speaking for the work of the tapissier or weaver, although time has distorted the faces beyond the lines of absolute beauty; and hatching accomplishes the shading.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tapestry Book] Reference

Un pâtissier qui pâtissait chez un tapissier qui tapissait, dit un jour au tapissier qui tapissait: vaut-il mieux pâtisser chez un tapissier qui tapisse ou tapisser chez un pâtissier qui pâtisse?.    From Wordnik.com.  [frogsmoke.com] Reference

The talent of an artist is thus made necessary to the tapissier, for shadings are left to him to accomplish by his own skill instead of by recourse to the forty thousand shades that are stored on the shelves of the store-room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tapestry Book] Reference