Elephant Parade Felted Wool Wall Hanging
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100% New Zealand Wool
Open pasture, naturally soft, cleanly spun, and extraordinarily resilient.
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Individually Hand-Sculpted
Wet-felted and needle-detailed so no two pieces are identical.
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Naturally Fresh & Durable
Breathable, odor-resistant, and easy to spot clean.
Description
Five small elephants walking down a strand, nose to tail, each in a different fleece: rose, turquoise, cream, sage and deep forest green. Every one wears an embroidered blanket scattered with glass beads, with beaded anklets at all four feet.
Between them sit hand-stitched felt cushions in brown, oxblood, peach and ivory, each ringed with tiny seed beads and strung on colored glass. A small brass bell finishes the bottom, and a metal ring at the top hangs it from a single hook.
Strands like this one belong to the toran tradition of South Asia, where a beaded hanging is set at the doorway as a welcome, the bell sounding softly as people pass and the elephant, trunk raised, standing for good fortune. Hang it down a door frame that way, or simply as a long wall piece.
At nearly five feet it suits a doorway, a long wall, the side of a bookcase or a nursery corner. Made from New Zealand wool.
Materials
- WoolNew Zealand wool felt
- ThreadCotton thread
- HardwareBrass bell; metal hanging ring
- TrimGlass seed beads
Dimensions
Craft
- CutEvery piece cut from wool felt and stitched by hand.
- BeadedBeaded one seed bead at a time: cushion edging, dots across the blankets and anklets at every foot.
- FinishedStrand assembled on colored glass beads and finished with a brass bell.
Product Care
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