Crafter's rank: Craftsecond
The scene depicted in this tapestry is set against a background woven in various tints of purpling indigo. The colour darkens the further up your eyes travel, revealing a sky at twilight, the sun drifting lower towards the horizon. Set against this are the strikingly woven figures of two dragons, a bronze and a gold, their eyes glimmering with violet-hued passion. The bronze's colouring is exotic, with feathery swirls of green and blue coalescing over the glistening metallic threads. The queen is a rich antique gold, yet brighter hues have been woven amongst her form so cleverly that she seems to glow with sensual brilliance. She is flying upwards triumphantly, the trailing edges of her outspread wings revealing a mellow colour not unlike dried wheat at summer's end. She seems unaware in her wild flight of the bronze soaring almost directly above her. His shimmering brassy wings are beginning the action of pinning to his sides in order to drop closer to the enticing golden body below. His talons and lithe young neck are extended possessively towards the queen, in such a position as to leave no doubt in your mind of his success in this mating flight. Those well acquainted with the dragons portrayed will know the woven forms as Laerth and Leilanth, and those who were present at the flight will not fail to recognize it as Leilanth's first, when the Weyrleadership of Benden was passed onto P'tran. In the bottom right-hand corner lies the seal of the Weavercraft, with the stamp of Craftsecond Opa.