Tapestry: Deyaan's Garden
Date:February 14, 1995
Crafter's rank: Craftsecond
A note about this tapestry
This was covertly commissioned of me by one who shall remain nameless,
as part of a secret plot, the details of which I was sworn to secrecy
about. It was delivered to Weyrwoman Deyaan at Ista Weyr in a mysterious
manner, with no clue of who it was from aside from the subject matter of
the tapestry itself...
Description
Before you is a full-sized curtain tapestry, lush with brilliant colours of
all tints and hues. The scene is one of a garden in full summer, the walls of
what could only be the crater of a Weyr's bowl rising upwards in the
background. Flowers and herbs lie sprawled in neatly-cultivated patches all
over, parting only to make way for a small path twisting through the sea of
blossoms. It leads to a small clearing which contains a swing and six-sided
cistern. Each side contains a different carving, although from the angle of
this scene, only three are visible. Only a master's skill could have woven the
ripples along the hide of the landing dragon, the craggy shapes of star
stones, and the eggs hardening in a hatching cavern which lie along the three
sides of the cistern. Not far away is the swing, a two-seater with encroaching
vines twisting up along its sides. It hangs peacefully, surrounded by a circle
of fellis blossoms, their five-petalled flowers woven in just exactly the
right tint of yellow which so distinctively identifies the well-known
herb.
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