Henry Moore Tapestries, 1988
Book
Paperback
ISBN: 0 85331 781 X
Published by The Henry Moore Foundation

By Anne Garrould and Valerie Power
Henry Moore, renowned throughout the world for his scultpure and drawings, was one of the few moden artists to extend his work into the realm of tapestry.

Working closely with the Tapestry Studio at West Dean, Moore authorised a series of tapestries based on his drawings. The Brilliance of the drawings is confirmed in their transition into large tapestries, seven or eight times the size of the original.

This is the only work to deal exclusively with Moore's tapestries, and is now avaialble for the first time in paperback.

Ann Garrould places the tapestries in the contaxt of Moore's work, discussing the drawings chosen and the way in which the subjects reflect Moore's three 'obsessions': the mother and child, the reclinging human figure and the larger form enclosing the smaller. Valerie Power describes the production of the tapestries, from the dyeing of the wools and the interpretation of the drawing in consultation with Henry Moore, to the final weaving.
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