This woman with doves tapestry, after Hussein Bicar, shows a woman in a long veil standing among doves in flight, woven in the serene, elongated manner of the Egyptian painter.
Details
- Size: 48 x 39 in (121 x 100 cm)
- Material: handwoven wool
- Signature: signed by the weaver in Arabic, bottom left
- One of a kind: handwoven, not a print or machine copy. The photographs show this exact piece.
Hanging it
Hung upright, the veiled figure suits a narrow wall, a hallway or the space beside a doorway or staircase. It arrives without a sleeve or rod pocket. Sew hook-and-loop tape along the top edge and fix the matching half to a wooden batten, or hang it from a clip rail. A tailor can add a rod casing if you prefer.
A painter’s style in wool
Bicar’s figures are long and calm, and the weaver carries that stillness into the weave, with the doves set around the veiled figure in flight. It is a single handwoven piece rather than a reproduction of the painting.
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