This river garden in bloom with geese tapestry shows a riverbank crowded with life: a great blossoming tree on the left, geese and fish in the water, and flowering plants, leaves and birds filling every space from edge to edge.
Details
- Size: 75 x 48 in (191 x 122 cm)
- Material: handwoven wool
- Style: Wissa Wassef style
- Dye: coloured with natural plant dyes
- One of a kind: woven freehand with no sketch or cartoon behind the warp, so no second copy exists; the photographs show this exact piece.
Hanging it
At 6.3 ft wide, this wool wall hanging is made for the wall above a sofa, a bed or a sideboard, where it can run almost the full width of the furniture. It arrives without a sleeve or rod pocket: sew hook-and-loop tape across the top edge and mount the other half on a wooden batten, or use a clip rail, or ask a tailor to sew on a casing for a rod.
Woven freehand
The weaver works straight onto the loom without a drawing to follow, so the garden grows as it is woven and the composition is decided thread by thread. The plant dyes give the wool soft, varied tones; as a goose tapestry and a garden tapestry in one, it holds a lot to look at.
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