This garden thicket with birds tapestry is a dense thicket of flowering plants from edge to edge, with birds and a rooster half-hidden among the leaves.
Details
- Size: 39 x 37 in (98 x 95 cm)
- Material: handwoven wool
- Style: Wissa Wassef style
- Dye: coloured with natural plant dyes
- Signature: signed by the weaver in the weave
- One of a kind: woven freehand from no sketch or cartoon. No second copy exists. The photographs show this exact piece.
Hanging it
Nearly square, the thicket works above a console, in a study, or as the focal point of an entryway. There is no sleeve or rod pocket. Sew hook-and-loop tape along the top and fix the matching half to a wooden batten. A clip rail works as well, or a tailor can stitch on a rod casing.
Finding the rooster
The weaver packs the plants so closely that the rooster and birds only appear when you look again. It is woven freehand in plant-dyed wool and signed in the weave, so this garden tapestry is entirely one person’s composition.
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