Akashganga
The piece
In Hindi the Milky Way is Akashganga, the Ganga of the sky. On a dark, clear night it stretches across the whole sky. Here it flows over deep teal wool as a river of hundreds of small stars, lozenges and dots in ivory, gold, sky blue and sea green, crowded in the middle and thinning at the edges. Shown as a rendering. Woven to order in Jaipur.
- Materials
- Hand-spun New Zealand wool with mulberry silk accents, cotton warp
- Dimensions
- Made to order in any size. Shown at 8 × 10 ft (about 2.4 × 3 m)
- Density
- 6 to 14 knots per inch
- Lead Time
- 6 to 10 months on the loom
- Origin
- Jaipur, Rajasthan
