Tree of Life
Object Details
- Designer
- Sue Thatcher Palmer, (British, born 1947)
- Stead McAlpin & Co., (Carlisle, England)
- Company
- Warner Fabrics, (London, England)
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Symbolic motifs of the world and creation arranged in stripes.
- Major stripe: the solar system and the universe above the earth, sky and ocean arranged in the shape of a tantric egg. The life process is symbolised by the tree. Animals surround the tree.
- Borders: 12 signs of the zodiac, flowers of the seasons associated with the zodiac, and dark stripes dividing the areas taken from the 64 hexagrams in the "I Ching". Multicolor.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Sue Palmer
- 1974
- Accession Number
- 1991-57-3
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- printed, dyed & painted textiles
- Object Name
- Textile
- Type
- Textile
- Medium
- Medium: cotton Technique: screen printed using 12 flatbed screens on plain weave
- Dimensions
- Warp x Weft: 302 x 142.5 cm (9 ft. 10 7/8 in. x 56 1/8 in.)
- Repeat H: 81.5 cm (32 1/16 in.)
- made in
- England
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1991-57-3
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4df79ace2-df41-4287-9a63-fad08691ce08
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