thetaleofthestitch:

Metonymy (voices from the past)

A page as a textile metonymy of the people that gathered to give it a voice, of the community that illuminated it and raised it to a prayer, of the generations that conveyed the text that time marked, stained, faded. A page in fabric and thread to magnify the cultural heritage of a people.

hand dyeing, embroidering and quilting by raffaela gottardelli
186 x 252 cm.

Thanks to the University of Missury, Kansas City for the manuscript (chants from Ordinary of the Mass and the Proper of the Mass, possibly from Spain)