This flowering thicket with egrets tapestry is dense with growth: sunflowers at one side, egrets stalking through the undergrowth and ducks on the water at the foot.
Details
- Size: 63 x 41 in (160 x 103 cm)
- Material: handspun wool on a cotton warp
- Finish: knotted fringe
- One of a kind: woven freehand, with no sketch or cartoon behind the warp. No second copy exists. The photographs show this piece.
On the wall
Its wide format is made for the wall above a sofa, a bed or a sideboard. It arrives without a sleeve or rod pocket. Hook-and-loop tape sewn along the top and fixed to a batten is the simplest method for a 5.2 ft wool wall hanging like this; a clip rail or a tailor-sewn rod casing also work.
Woven freehand
The thicket is woven in handspun wool over a cotton warp, so the egrets and flowers were placed by eye rather than traced. The ends are finished with a knotted fringe.
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