first rug

1024 rectangles.

In the last weeks on this work I called it the monster. The piece became heavier and more unwieldy and most of the time it was just too big for me to handle in different ways.

I had wanted to make a rug for so long, but I didn't trust myself to work on just one piece for several months.

At the beginning of the year I finally decided to do it. The fabrics are dyed and embroidered, cut into squares and put together again. About 10 percent are hand-woven squares in matching colours.

I still have too little distance from this work to be able to really judge it.

But I made my first rug.

Pascale Kohl