You can watch a masterpiece take shape before your eyes as weavers recreate a beautiful painting in front of the public at an Edinburgh art studio.
The team of weavers at Edinburgh's renowned Dovecot Studios have just started creating a beautiful tapestry which will take a whole year to complete.
The tapestry studio is re-starting its creative work after Covid-19 by embarking on a work inspired by Leon Kossoff’s 1981 painting Study from Minerva Protects Pax from Mars by Rubens.
The painstaking work, taking place in Dovecot's tapestry studio, can be viewed by the public via their exclusive Viewing Balcony, reports artdaily.
Celia Joicey, Dovecot Director told the website: "This commission is hugely exciting – it represents the importance of tapestry as a public artform in Scotland and it is a statement of intent for Edinburgh.
"We have world-leading studios and galleries in which to make and display art in the city – this tapestry will connect the best of both while promoting the significance of Leon Kossoff’s mark-making on an unprecedented scale."
When finished the tapestry will hang in Edinburgh Park, a new development currently under construction in the West of the City that will see up to 1,800 homes and 1million square foot of retails space.
