Eleonora Budden

PARSING TAPESTRY

PARSING TAPESTRY: PAST

PARSING TAPESTRY: PRESENT

PARSING TAPESTRY: FUTURE

WOVEN WORLDS

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE TREE

BOMBYX MORI

BOMBYX MORI (detail of the moth)

Creating a narrative in tapestry is the most satisfying task. Long before I discovered tapestry weaving, I read a book in which one of the characters, Becca Weaver, was a tapestry weaver, and the characters she wove came to be in the world as she wove them. That is how tapestry weaving makes me feel.

In 2020 I wove “It’s All about the Tree” which, although the general design was conceived before weaving, the individual areas developed as the work progressed.

The most recent work is the triptych “Parsing Tapestry”, woven in celebration of the BTG’s 20th anniversary. It was shown in the regional exhibition Woven Worlds – ‘taking Tapestry into the Future’, held at the Barbican Library, London during November 2025.