This garden of birds tapestry is a garden grown wild with fantastical plants and blooms, doves in the sky and geese sheltering in the thicket.
Details
- Size: 30 x 20 in (75 x 50 cm)
- Material: handwoven wool
- Signature: signed by the weaver in Arabic
- Finish: warp fringe
- 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
Its wide format is made for the wall above a sofa, a bed or a sideboard, or a smaller wall where a 30 in piece fits well. There is no sleeve or rod pocket. Hook-and-loop tape along the top edge, matched with a strip on a wooden batten, is the simplest method; a clip rail or a tailor-sewn casing for a rod work too.
Woven freehand
The fantastical plants come from the weaver's imagination rather than a drawing, built up in wool directly on the warp. The piece is signed in Arabic and finished with a warp fringe.
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