TAPESTRY

I have always been drawn to TAPESTRY. It is an art form that is many centuries old. Each piece I have ever seen whether large like a rug or small like this pillow, have intrigued me with  it's precision, colors and beauty. The picture today is of a pillow I bought at a thrift store for 75 cents. I actually bought it for someone else and when I brought it home, I couldn't part with it.

TAPESTRY making is a real mystery to me. From what I understand a TAPESTRY must be made on a form of loom in which there is yarn or possibly threads that run up and down, VERTICAL is called the WARP. The HORIZONTAL threads/yarn is called the WEFT or WOOF.  I know so little about the actually WEAVING technique except to say that one uses a SHUTTLE with yarn attached to the end to weave it over and behind the warp to create a design of their choosing. 

What is so amazing to me is how anyone can create a TAPESTRY so intricate as to create a scene or design with all the colors, shapes and dimensions as seen in this (simple) pillow, let alone a huge wall TAPESTRY or rug many feet wide and long.

Looking at a TAPESTRY is like looking at each thread of our lives. It is filled with color, design, shape, structure and beauty that fills my soul. When I first became aware that my life is a TAPESTRY, added onto from moment by moment, year by year, it made me realize just how CREATIVE we can be . . .either for the positive or the negative. It's like every move we make is a step in producing our own TAPESTRY or journey on our own! Of course we are not creating our life alone, but we do have our hand in what we do create!

I find it totally fascinating to look at NATURE as if it were a TAPESTRY, all the shades of color, lines going this way and that, design, texture and richness right before our eyes! How often do we notice this? I'm LOOKING at the world in a whole new way now. I'm AWARE of how much FOCUS and CREATIVITY goes into making a TAPESTRY. It's inspiring to me to know it is available to enjoy in life.

Besides the artistic qualities it takes to weave a TAPESTRY, I'm sure that to weave is very good for the brain; somewhat like a jigsaw puzzle, searching for the proper pieces and the placing them in the right spot. I'm finding that many things that I do and use my brain a little differently is benefitting my mindset. I'm most grateful for OPENING up to the many beauties and wonders of LIFE!

Yet another form of art

TAPESTRY seems by far one

of the most  fascinating of art's 

magical processes!

BLESSINGS