A tapestry is an ancient form of textile art, an appropriate name for a church in a city with a rich textile history. A tapestry is made up of two types of thread, the warp thread and the weft thread. In traditional weaving, both the warp and weft threads are visible, but in a tapestry, the artwork is formed by the weft threads only, so that the warp threads are completely hidden. Most ancient tapestry weavers used basic cotton, wool or linen threads for the hidden warp, and in many cases these were threads that were frayed or even broken. The weft thread, however, was the visible portion of the artwork, so weavers used linen, cotton, silk, silver and even gold thread to create the beauty of the artwork.
At Tapestry Church, our desire is to be a place where people who are broken or frayed can be woven together to produce a beautiful work of art, the body of Christ. When outsiders look at Tapestry, they won't see the brokenness of the people, they will see the beauty of the Savior.
