This Nile sunset with fish and birds tapestry reads from top to bottom: the setting sun, flocks of birds along the far shore, and below them the river itself, alive with dozens of fish, swimming geese and water plants.
Details
- Size: 71 x 45 in (181 x 113 cm)
- Material: handwoven wool
- Style: Wissa Wassef style
- Dye: coloured with natural plant dyes
- Signature: signed by the artist in Arabic, bottom right
- One of a kind: woven freehand from no sketch or cartoon. No second copy exists. The photographs show this exact piece.
Hanging it
Its tall format suits a narrow wall, a hallway, or the space beside a doorway or a staircase. The tapestry arrives without a sleeve or rod pocket. The simplest method is hook-and-loop tape sewn along the top edge, with the matching half fixed to a wooden batten on the wall. A clip rail also works, or a tailor can sew on a casing for a rod.
Woven freehand
In the Wissa Wassef style, the artist works directly on the loom with no cartoon, so the sun, the shore and every fish are placed by eye. The plant-dyed wool and the Arabic signature at the bottom right finish this Nile tapestry.
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