Wall tapestries should come back into vogue

Wall tapestries are colorful pictures woven into cloth which tell stores and provides bonus insulation and echo reduction. These were once the height of luxury and present in all the castles but they have fallen out of favor as printed paintings have come into fashion. Yet these prints lack depth, color, and are only cheap reproductions of famous artwork. They do not tell the history of the family in a surprisingly washable format. But there is nothing lost when they are burned in a house fire. Who wants to live in such a replaceable consumerist culture. 

One of the more famous, and my personal favorite, of these is the unicorn tapestries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_of_the_Unicorn These huge tapestries would take up the majority of a wall in the average house so they are on display in museums. http://www.metmuseum.org/metmedia/interactives/adults-teachers/the-unicorn-tapestries the detail is impressive and the work as a whole shows much about the culture of the people who made them.