Now rare. [f. TISSUE sb.] trans. To make into a tissue, to weave; spec. to weave with gold or silver threads, to work or form in tissue; to adorn or cover with tissue (cf. prec. 1 a).
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 237/1. A whyte mantel In whiche there were litil ouches and crosses of gold tissued. Ibid. (1491), Vitas Patr. (W. de W., 1495), II. 249/2. To tyssue the sayd roddes & palmes to make mattes.
1547. Harl. MS. 1419, B, lf. 535 b. Clothe of silver tissued withe flowres of golde and silver.
1562. in Feuillerat, Revels Q. Eliz. (1908), 114. Gold tysshewed with silver.
a. 1626. Bacon, New Atl. (1650), 25. The Charriot was covered with cloth of Gold tissued upon Blew.
a. 1851. Moir, Birth Flowers, vi. Her vesture seem’d as from the blooms Of all the circling seasons wove,… And tissued with the woof of Love.
b. fig.
1637. Wotton, in Reliq. (1672), 104. To Countenance any Great action; and then … to Tissue upon it some Pretence or other.
1800. Moore, Anacreon, xlvi. 14. Cultured field, and winding stream, Are sweetly tissued by his beam.
1905. Athenæum, 6 May, 558/2. ‘Dream and Reality’ is tissued from a series of such metaphors.
