Deirdre Dyson LOOKING THROUGH Custom handmade rug

LOOKING THROUGH is an hand knotted rug in wool and silk.‎ Goodweave certified.‎ Inspired by ‘looking through’ a water-filled flask at boat rigging and blue cushions reflected on a shiny surface.‎ Deirdre painted these distorted objects without drawing the outline of the flask.‎ I knew from exercises in my student days that without trying, the flask would slowly appear and it did, and does in the [finished] carpet.‎ Inspired by the act of looking at and through glass, ‘Looking Glass’ consists of eight carpet designs, including ‘Transparent’, a reinterpretation of decorative shapes on a coloured vase and ‘Light Between’, a play on contrasting monochrome grading with the illusion of light.‎ ‘Slivers’, which stems from a series of small flat discs of overlapping glass, combines 33 colours in wool and silk while ‘Looking Through’ began as a painting of the distortions seen through a water-filled flask against the real shapes behind.‎ Each Deirdre Dyson carpet is totally bespoke and can be made to order in any shape or size.‎