Portuguese Textile Artist Creates Gorgeous Handwoven World Map Tapestry Using Techniques of Her Ancestors
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To celebrate the celebrate the partnership between Heathrow Airport and the Royal Botanic Kew Gardens, Portuguese textiles artist Vanessa Barragio created an absolutely gorgeous handwoven world map tapestry. Barragio employed the techniques of her ancestors along with the materials of jute, cotton and wool. To increase environmental awareness, Barragio also inserted into the tapestry map areas where threatened species reside. This amazing project took Barragio over three weeks in total to complete.
The Botanical Tapestry is an artwork developed to and Kew Gardens. Installed in Terminal 2's departures forecourt of Heathrow Airport, this tapestry is 100% handmade, using ancestral techniques, like latch hook, crochet and felt needle. It took more than 520 hours to weave, using 8kg of jute and cotton and 42kg of recycled wool.
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