Etel Adnan

Ever since encountering La Dame à la Licorne, the sixteenth-century tapestry series at the Musée de Cluny in Paris in 1949, Etel Adnan has been interested in making tapestries. She started producing small drawings, or “drafts”, specifically intended to become larger works, weaved as tapestries or even produced as ceramic murals at a larger scale. In the mid-60s, on her way from the United States to Egypt, she stopped in Tunisia where she met a master weaver and commissioned her very first two tapestries from those drafts. Since the 2010s, Adnan’s tapestries are handwoven in France at Les Ateliers Pinton d’Aubusson (Felletin).