Autumn Colours Cityscape

Reversible, woven in the boundweave 6-end 2-tie unit weave with shaft switching. This rug was inspired by a tree in Wanganui Girls High School courtyard which I was visiting for a spin-in by the Wanganui Guild. It was showing the most beautiful autumn colours, way more subtle and complex than I could hope to capture (Oh for a camera to record the moment, but I do have a memory) , and I started the project as a dyeing challenge. Combining the uneven colours I had dyed up as I wound the shuttles reproduces something of the gradations of shades on the original. The leaf motif, while the wrong shape for that tree, was chosen to be instantly recognisable. The “cityscape” was an idea I had had for sometime and takes advantage of the natural vertical columns that the weave structure produces. It is meant to both juxtapose the urban with nature and to represent the leaves falling from the tree, but is actually an exercise in generating random numbers within a specified range. I didn’t cheat and graph up a number of results and select the best, but then maybe I was lucky. Cotton warp wool weft.

Size 1020 x 1900mm

$1500