Talking about where to see textiles, mostly but not exclusively historic, mostly but not always from the UK and Europe, in the wild and online. With occasional diversions.

Friday, 2 December 2011

Message in a Bottle


Back in May I wrote a post about the ship in a bottle occupying the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.  You can read the story and find the links here. Personally I have found this the most moving, and the most apt, of the many Fourth Plinth occupants since the project started.  No doubt I was swayed by the artist's brilliant use of fabric.

Yesterday in The Guardian, I read that as its time of occupancy draws to a close its future is uncertain.  There is a wonderful suggestion that it be re-positioned permanently in Greenwich.  There is of course an alternative, that it be shipped abroad to grace a tycoon's garden.

Please take time to read the Guardian article.

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