A whole reef at the scale of a wall. Shoals of fish run down a shaft of light through deep water, and around them the sea floor fills with fan corals, sea grass, anemones, shrimp and gardens of coral, hundreds of creatures in all, each one worked individually by the weaver rather than repeated from a pattern.
- Size: 280 x 175 cm (110 x 69 in)
- Material: handwoven wool
- Signature: Signed by the weaver in Arabic, woven into the cloth
- Warp fringe and slit-weave joins, the marks of genuine hand weaving
- 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.
At this size it becomes the room's main event: a stairwell, a double-height wall, a long dining-room wall or a hotel lobby.
Hanging: 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.
See more one-of-a-kind pieces in our Egyptian woven tapestries.
