Celestial Tapestry captures the
Celestial Tapestry captures the images of the players on
heaven's stage, both day and night. The Sun, the Moon and the stars as well as
planets are shown over a black background.
First shown is the radiant Sun. An anonymous poet viewed its
raise as "heavenly eyes" in a poem that was famously set to music by John
Dowland. Rimbaud wrote of the Sun as being "the hearth of affection and life".
Next, the night sky takes center stage. The fascination of
the night sky has inspired generations of poets to attempt to render nocturnal
beauty in verse. In Clair de lune, Guy de Maupassant had his protagonist
- a man of the cloth - "gaze upon the plain all flooded with the caressing
light, bathed in that tender, languishing charm of serene nights". After
experiencing the beauty of the night, he asked himself: "For whom is destined
this sublime spectacle, this abundance of poetry cast from heaven to earth?".
Crescent moons parade across this decorator tapestry. About
the Moon Sir Walter Raleigh wrote that "Time wears her not; she doth his chariot
guide; Mortality below her orb is placed". Thoreau thought her the "mistress of
the night". Sir Walter Scott described her as the "pale pilgrim of the troubled
sky". Sir Philip Sidney described the Moon's nighttime journey across the sky
thus:
"With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb’st the skies!
How silently, and with how wan a face!"
About the stars Carl Sandburg wrote that:
"In summer
the stars speak deep thoughts
In the winter
the stars repeat summer speeches."
Also included in the design of Celestial Tapestry are planets
with rings, reminiscent of Saturn.
Celestial Tapestry is an incredible decorator fabric that can
be used to make slipcovers, wall hangings, seat cushions, table covers and other
decorative items.