Ce're Cie Deux Tapestry by Mother's Commerce Company

Hand Woven Wool Tapestry Wall Hangings by Mere Cie Deux formerly Ce're Cie - Mother's Commerce Company. We love the beautiful tight woven floral and tree landscape design. This 70/80s hand woven, one-of-a-kind "Tapestry" often evokes an image of traditional European wall hangings utilizing the artistic designs of the classical age. They have broken out of this mold by creating a beautiful line of tapestries adapted primarily from the work of present-day artists. The graphic artists come from all over the USA and Europe to translate their best designs into original hand-woven images. The result is a woven painting with warmth and texture that easily finds a place in any interior design scheme. The cream color base incorporates black, tan, grays, orange and many variations of these colors. There is a channel built at the top to insert a rod to hang on the wall. Measures - 58" W x 34" H (143 CM W X 86 CM H) History: Mere Cie Tapestries are manufactured in Pondicherry, India, a city 100 miles south of the major southern city of Madras on the Bay of Bengal. Unlike machine-made tapestries, each of our designs is created by hand on a traditional upright loom using the finest quality carpet wool. The weaving center was founded in the mid 1970's by members of The Mother's Service Society, a social science research organization dedicated to national and international development. From its early beginnings with a few weavers and simple tapestry designs, the center has flourished and now employs over 100 weavers from the local community. Mere Cie Tapestries are wool tapestries woven on a cotton warp (the threads around which the tapestry is constructed). The design you see is all wool. We use the finest grade of carpet wool from the northern province of Punjab in India. Our color palette includes an extensive range of rich and subtle colors. Most of our wool is dyed by hand at the weaving center in Pondicherry using the highest grade commercial dyes to ensure uniformity, color-fastness and resistance to fading. The wool is moth-proofed before being spun into yarn for the weaving, and the finished tapestries are all shipped with moth balls. We have thus never had problems with moths in the wool. The weaving is done by young adult women from the local community who receive special training in European style tapestry weaving. These are all women who have finished at least their secondary school education (the equivalent of high school in this country). We encourage everyone to continue their education into college, and many do so, while others leave to start families. Thus we are always training new weavers. Our most intricate designs require a great deal of skill and dexterity which only the most talented weavers can acquire. Production time varies according to the design and the size of each piece. The complex designs may take a month or more for weaving even in a small size. The weaver sits on a stool in front of the loom to work on the tapestry. She works from a drawing called a cartoon, which is a black and white rendition of the tapestry with numbered areas corresponding to the various colors of wool to be used. The weaving technique used is called split-weave, so called because there are gaps or splits in the tapestry upon completion of the weaving, generally wherever there are color changes in the design. This technique allows for the depiction of very fine, life-like detail in the design. When the weaver is finished, the tapestry is sent to the finishing room, where the splits in the design are hand-sewn tightly shut and the edges of the tapestry are turned and sewn over. A sleeve is also sewn on the back where a rod can be slipped through for hanging on the wall. Measures - 39" Tall X 29" W