1st July 2010
About to start assembling the archives.
Naseer’s almost done: Rug Intervention
The original Persian carpet was huge, with multiple borders of up to 3 1/2ft deep.
It was also ruined and cut through in many places as well as worn flat down to the weft and weave in the central areas; which became “The Garden Palimpsest”.
However I just couldnt waste the rest of it, the borders actually carry much more of the pile, as they were less trafficked.
That also meant they were much harder to pierce with the needles, so damaged fingers and thumbs, no thimbles in sight.
The 9 border sections cut out between torn and missing areas have become the “Rug Samplers” and “Car-Plate Carpets”.
Now the whole rug has been addressed, honoured and given new purpose, it was otherwise rubbish.
Naseer’s work is almost done. A few adjustments, additions; but also a new rug to process.
Its not as fine as this one and the pallette is in reds and browns.
I dont know what it is to become, the main area wont be symetrical because of missing areas.
On saturday we are cutting it up, like a diamond, wondering what the best way to split it is, working around the flaws.
Its another huge one but with much ripped from its original borders and the heart of it too, better condition but not so fine as a piece..
Its a project for after the summer.
…. and this is where it began last October at the old house, having been stored for almost 10 years.
Miscellaneous Lahore
Really!
intresting loads….
like an Erwin Wurm sculpture on wheels…..
Some of these will go in our “5 Ways Home Video” 4 mins of joint introduction.
Rug samplers-2 26th June 2010 pm
Naseer at work on his own this morning.
Finishing a fragment, sampler.
New sampler complete.
New sampler and Car-Plate carpets.
Rug Sampler Works, 26th June, am
Naseer is trimming the fringe on a new sampler.
Naseer at work.
A new fragment in process of being embroidered with part of the Versailles plan.
same scale as main rug work, same pallette too.
Tying in the back threads and trimming.
Tools and materials in the studio.
26th June am, an Update, Rug works are continuing
The fringe has been fitted and trimmed back to around 1.5 inches.
Naseer is still implementing repairs and modifications on the main rug “Garden Palimpsest” but also to a number of sampler sized pieces, off-cuts.
These are the beginnings of various categories in the bigger archive (The Taxonomy of Eden) maybe by tonight I’ll have the first folder samples.
Naseer at work on some changes.
The fringe before cutting, the tied off and knotted bases looked too minimal.
A repair that has been over-worked,
more layers.
Naseer at work.
Naseer at work on “Garden Palimpsest”
Last posting for 15th June TI submissions
The rug is almost done, my working title is “Garden Palimpsest”
A flying carpet thats too heavy to get to Berlin?
A few more days of building detail and making descision such as long fringing or
brushing out the ends and then tying them in?
To wash again or not?
It might pucker but also might integrate the new work well, but it could also bleed significantly.
Its also old and weak and I shouldnt push my luck with the very fabric of it.
I’m looking into Versailles but also Paradise Gardens and the Sun King, Louis the 14th.
Andre Le Notre and Delagrife (nothing available on him yet).
Been reading on the development and up keep of the Versailles gardens where water was always a huge issue,
though not for irrigation, just for the huge number of fountains.
A really worn area of the rug.
A B&W worked only version of the light thread mapping, the water isnt showing here.