This nile village with palms and ibis tapestry is a long view of village life: mud-brick houses under date palms, women walking the bank with loads, a goat beneath a spotted tree, and a procession of ibis and egrets wading the river along the foot of the panel.
Details
- Size: 109 x 60 in (278 x 152 cm)
- Material: handwoven wool: handspun wool on a cotton warp
- Age: vintage, woven in the 1990s
- Use: heavy enough to be laid as a floor rug as well as hung
- One of a kind: woven freehand with no sketch or cartoon behind the warp. No second copy exists. The photographs show this exact piece.
Hanging or laying it
At 9.1 ft it becomes the room's main event, in a stairwell, on a double-height wall, along a long dining-room wall or in a hotel lobby. It arrives without a sleeve or rod pocket. Across 109 x 60 in, hook-and-loop tape along the whole top edge and a long batten fixed into the wall spread the load; a heavy-duty clip rail or a rod in a tailor-sewn casing also work.
Hand-hatched
The colour areas are built up by hand-hatching, which you can see up close. Look closely and the hatching shows where one shade gives way to the next. As a vintage Nile tapestry with this much weight, it can hang on a wall or lie on the floor.
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