Embroidered Map of London Wall Hanging (custom made)

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Ekta Kaul
Embroidered Map of London Wall Hanging (custom made)
2017

About the Item

Ekta Kaul is an award-winning designer-maker, artist and textile craft expert. Within her practice exploring contemporary expressions of stitch and print she creates embroidered cartographic quilts based on personal histories. Her fascination with maps began as a child when growing up in India. She would spend hours drawing maps of places both real and imagined, drawn also by maps for their graphic quality and potential for story telling. Kaul prefers to work with natural materials such as silks, cottons and slub linen sourced from fair trade cooperatives in her homeland India. This, her London Map, is embroidered on a textured ivory Eri silk which comes from the jungles of Assam, and the wall hanging’s monochrome palette and minimal appearance are informed by Western traditions. The map is wall mounted using two brackets and a rod which threads through a tunnel at the top of the work. There is then also a free hanging rod at the bottom to give weight and an even hang to the work. We provide a set of brackets, screws and pole, ready to be fixed to your wall. It should be noted that the map illustrated can be customized (at extra cost). Places, architectural icons, routes and features of personal meaning can all be added with a colored thread to highlight them. Kaul mainly works to commission creating bespoke personal maps for individual clients on ivory or pale grey silk or linen - though we are happy to discuss bespoke colours and fabrics. The maps themselves can be based on whole countries, continents, your local area, your business reach and include journeys, places of significant events in your life and so on. Please enquire for more details.

Creator:
Ekta Kaul (1977, British)
Creation Year:
2017
Dimensions:
Height: 78.75 in (200 cm)Width: 78.75 in (200 cm)Depth: 1.19 in (3 cm)
Medium:
Linen
Period:
2010-
Condition:
For shipping we would either roll the map or fold it. Measurements: If the quilt is rolled along the whole length i.e. 200cm then circumference of the roll is 36 cms Diameter of the roll is 10 cms.
Gallery Location:
Shaftesbury, GB
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1031856023