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The warp will be cut in front of visitors at the close
26 серпня 2026
Cutting a finished tapestry from the loom usually happens alone in the studio.
The Palace of Arts gave the show its tallest hall
26 серпня 2026
The largest work is two and a half metres; under a lower ceiling it would read differently.
Three works are shown from both sides
26 серпня 2026
They hang on wires in the middle of the hall, so knots and thread crossings stay visible.
The show opens with an empty loom
26 серпня 2026
The first exhibit is bare warp without a single weft row: where any tapestry begins.
The warp is left exposed in every work
26 серпня 2026
At the edges the stretched threads are visible, the part usually hidden under a hem.
Yarn samples before and after dyeing are shown alongside
26 серпня 2026
Thirty skeins in glass jars show how many shades one plant yields at different steeping times.
Dzyga shows the works without glass
26 серпня 2026
The gallery's decision: wool texture vanishes under glass, and here it carries half the meaning.
Why the green here is always muted
26 серпня 2026
Plant dyes give no pure green; it is built by layering blue over yellow.
The madder for the red is grown near Lviv
26 серпня 2026
The root matures for three years; one plant yields yarn for half a tapestry.
The whole palette comes from three plants
26 серпня 2026
Alder bark, oak leaves and madder give everything from grey to red with no synthetic dye.
A loom with an unfinished work stands in the hall
26 серпня 2026
Visitors see the reverse of the cloth, the side a finished tapestry hides for good.
The museum opened its second floor for the show
26 серпня 2026
The works needed distance: the compositions are built for a view from eight metres.
The winter tapestry is the lightest in the show
26 серпня 2026
The snow is woven in undyed wool from two flocks; the difference between them gives the volume.
The autumn piece was dyed with onion skin
26 серпня 2026
The ochre from onion skin runs deeper than synthetic and lacks the yellow cast that glares under lamps.
Four seasons, four dyeings
26 серпня 2026
Each tapestry is woven in wool of a single dyeing, so the colour shift rests on light rather than pigment.
The catalogue was printed on linen paper
26 серпня 2026
The choice is not decorative: linen is the second thread in these works after wool.
Potocki Palace gave the show its own halls
26 серпня 2026
The tapestries hang in the enfilade, so a facade in cloth stands beside a facade in stone through the window.
Silk thread appears in only two tapestries
26 серпня 2026
It marks glass, the one facade material that behaves with light differently from stone.
Why these works hold no diagonal
26 серпня 2026
The limit is deliberate: vertical and horizontal are what both masonry and weaving are made of.
Eight facades reduced to rectangles
26 серпня 2026
The Renaissance townhouses of Rynok Square appear as a grid of fields, windows marked by darker wool.
