This week’s featured tapestry is of Lady Godiva’s fabled ride through Coventry to protest her husband’s taxation of the townspeople.

This tapestry is based on the richly detailed painting by British late Pre-Raphaelite painter and illustrator, John Collier.

For this week only you can purchase the Lady Godiva wall tapestry and get 15% off instantly. Use coupon code godiva during checkout. Be sure to get your orders in this week, this offer expires Sunday, June 14th at midnight.

This week’s featured tapestry is called Les Herauts. It is one of a set of tapestries called “Artemisia”, queen of antiquity.

Woven for Marie de Medicis in Paris in the early XVII century and now part of the Mobilier National. The Heralds, or messengers, tell the people that Artemisia has decided to call the Assembly.

For this week only you can purchase the Les Herauts wall tapestry and get 15% off instantly. Use coupon code herauts during checkout. Be sure to get your orders in this week, this offer expires Sunday, June 7th at midnight.

Hey hey, The Tapestry Standard has some exciting new things coming in 2009 and we can’t wait to get started. Here are some of the new developments you can expect in the coming months:

• 3 full new tapestry lines including a beautiful selection of medieval tapestries that will knock your socks off!
• Weekly featured product sales – got your eye on a particular tapestry? Give us a shout and we’ll add it to the discount list
• Tapestry collections – some pieces are better together and we’re not only going to show you which ones but also give you discounts for buying them together
• Even better design advice and customer support – those of you who have ordered from us before know we provide top notch support but we’ve expanded our team to make it even better

That’s just the beginning. We’re looking to make 2009 the best year yet for us, you, and your home decor. We’re always open to suggestions so please feel free to drop us a line or comment.

And to start this year the way it ought to be, here is a brand new blog only tapestry discount. Enter coupon code tapblog2009 at checkout from now until January 31st to receive 12% off any order over $50. Let’s get 2009 off on the right foot!

King Arthur was probably the coolest person ever.  So cool in fact that people actually make things depicting his awesomeness – tapestries for instance.  Arthur was and still is heralded as the leader of the good guys against the bad guys.  Sadly most people get so caught up in his glory that they overlook his little brother Prince Arter.

Arter’s name was actually Arthur as well and surprisingly he can be credited with most of King A’s success. Unfortunately for him, he and the King had very similar names and since he was little, weak, and frail people did not pay much attention to him and gave big K-A all the praise.

Arter was a lot like that drunk, homeless guy that sings all those strange inaudible songs in the street every Sunday, except he had teeth.  It didn’t help Arter’s case that he had a lispy-thing when he talked and reminded everyone of Leo DeCapricorn – the town stud who acted in all the cool plays and got a lot of sympathy due to his affliction with Growing Pains.  He was a hardcore Method actor as well and even went as far as getting Kicked in the Cameron.

But anyway back to Arter.  Actually, who cares about Arter, honestly?  If you want to be cool like the King (“Its good to be the king!”), and score with droves of ladies… then simply get some cool King Arthur tapestry wall art and show them just how Excalibur was extracted from the stone.