Big Beatification/Canonisation Tapestries

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You know those big tapestries that they make for beatifications and canonisations? What materials are they made of? How do they make them (I imagine there isn’t a gigantic printer that produces these)? They sort of look like the same material tents are made of because they look glossy. I’m guessing it isn’t embroidered, because that would cost a lot of time and money. Making an actual painting wouldn’t be easy either.

After the ceremony, what happens to the tapestry? It doesn’t seem to me that it’s given as a souvenir to the person’s shrine or anything like that.
 
I had the opportunity to get up close to one of them a number of years when I was visiting the Vatican. They were laid out on tables I guess to be put up soon. As I recall, the background was some sort of cloth tapestry but the image of the person was an enlarged photograph attached to it in a way that it all looked like one.
 
They probably go to the Secret Archives after that until they are used again, if ever.
 
Joannm said:
I had the opportunity to get up close to one of them a number of years when I was visiting the Vatican. They were laid out on tables I guess to be put up soon. As I recall, the background was some sort of cloth tapestry but the image of the person was an enlarged photograph attached to it in a way that it all looked like one.
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Cool. It was an enlarged photograph as in it was made of glossy paper?
 
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