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.