Vastu
The piece
Vastu shastra lays a building on a grid of squares. In the grid of eighty one, nine by nine, the nine squares at the heart are left open as the brahmasthana. Vastu knots that grid in natural dye colours, indigo, madder, iron black, olive, turmeric and cream, around one saffron square at the centre, every line drawn by hand. 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 this shape, sized to your room. Shown at 10 × 10 ft (about 3 × 3 m)
- Density
- 6 to 14 knots per inch
- Lead Time
- 6 to 10 months on the loom
- Origin
- Jaipur, Rajasthan
