Vessels and Shadows Painting

The Arraiolos Carpet is made with "Ponto de Arraiolos", an outstretched cross stitch perfected by the seamstresses of Arraiolos, a charming village in southern Portugal. Needle work, hand embroidered on jute canvas with wool. I have always idealized figurative rugs on the floor of a living room. This tapestry is the result of a work that began as a rug twice its current size. The vases were arranged so that, either in one direction or in the opposite direction, it was possible to read them. When I proposed this design to the client, the client asked me instead for an abstract design, because the vases on the floor would interfere with the real vases that could be part of her living room decor. However, as I fell in love with this piece, I decided to divide it in half and turn it into two tapestries. And so this tapestry was born and a second one I called “Four Vases”. MADE in Portugal, 70.295 hand embroidered stitches.