I started planning this tapestry portrait of my mother one year ago. As I was concluding her portrait on my loom, it became evident that her real-life tapestry was also coming to a conclusion. I arrived at Mom’s bedside with the portrait in hand, warp ends dangling. Her smile in that cherished moment is one I will never forget. In the days that followed, she quietly slept. I silently braided the warp-end edging, trimmed the tails on the back, stabilized the tapestry through the lining, and stitched the lining in place. I carefully secured the last stitch. In the wee hours of the next morning, while she was asleep, the Lord Jesus called my mother home. Tapestry complete. Beautiful.
![Weaving a pictorial tapestry. Making butterflies.](https://warpedforgood.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG_0231-scaled.jpeg)
![Tapestry portrait. Eye of the Beholder.](https://warpedforgood.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG_0279-scaled.jpeg)
Eye of the Beholder is about my mother who taught me to appreciate beauty. This is a portrait of a woman with an eye for beauty, with beauty in her eyes.
I humbly share my process of weaving Eye of the Beholder in this video:
May you seek beauty that never ends.
Her daughter,
Karen