Final Tapestry Cape Photos

This has been a proper labour of love and I've really enjoyed making it. Same can't be said for my brother who I made take lots of photos when the sun finally came out.

It's a shame I couldn't take some more professional photos of it because I only have my phone camera, but there's always time in the future for that!

The tapestry functions as a storytelling device to tell my 4 stories, there's an ambiguity to them as visual images, you need the stories to make sense of my version of events, but I like that it leaves it open for new stories to be created by the viewer - much like the changing of tales passing down through word-of-mouth.

it happens in layers - first story (rain) at the bottom, then wind, then thunder then sun at the top (the icons in the corners follow this order round clockwise from top left too).

The wind story I created involves a greedy woman stealing the wind and harnessing it all for herself by using it as thread to craft herself a cape of dancing designs - so I designed the tapestry to function also as a cape, so it can exist 'within' the story as well as telling it, with a button fastened at the back. If I was the confident performer type I could perform my stories aloud like theyre written to be spoken whilst wearing the cape . but maybe another day





Some close-ups of the stitching. It took me about 3/4 days of solid 10 hours a day stitching because it was all by hand, but it was a really enjoyable n relaxing process, although I might invest in a sewing machine in future to make things easier and to avoid landing on a needle and getting it stuck in my hand again