Japanese Ceremonial Silk Wall Tapestry – The Giverny Dream, Water Lilies

Where Japanese silk meets the floating world. Woven at the intersection of two traditions, once.

The Giverny Dream is mounted from a high-density Nishijin Jacquard obi - the same loom tradition that produced the ceremonial obi of the Japanese aristocratic court, here applied to a subject that sits at the precise intersection of two great visual cultures. The motif is Suiren (睡蓮) - the water lily, Japan's symbol of purity emerging from still water - rendered in an abstract atmospheric palette of amethyst violet, cobalt blue, teal, and shimmering silver metallic thread. The composition is not a reproduction but a textile that thinks the same thought a French Impressionist thought looking at water: that still water holds the sky, that colour and reflection are the same substance, that the moment just before dark is when everything becomes most itself. What oil-on-canvas achieved in nineteenth-century France, this Nishijin weaver achieved with silk thread on a Jacquard loom — the same subject, the same quality of attention, two materials and two traditions arriving at the same place.

At the atelier we cut a length from the woven obi, redesigned the composition for vertical wall format, and lined the back with undyed support cloth. The piece is mounted between handmade hardwood bars at the top and bottom, finished with a leather hanging cord, and supplied ready to hang. The bars are part of the work, not a separate acquisition. The visible silk is the obi as it was woven.

The Giverny Dream is the most culturally resonant piece in the collection - and the one with the broadest appeal across buyers who may not have entered through Japanese textile culture. The violet and silver palette brings depth and atmospheric quality to a bedroom, a creative studio, a music room, the bar of a boutique hotel, or any space that benefits from the quality of something considered from more than one direction. It pairs with dusty plum, aged silver, warm white plaster, pale oak, and the quiet surfaces of a room furnished for contemplation.

Renaras: existing Japanese ceremonial silk, preserved at gallery scale and brought into rooms where it can be seen.

Each tapestry arrives with its own passport from the atelier - a handmade record of the obi's first life, the composition that was cut from it, the lining and mounting it received, signed and dated in Amsterdam.

Dimensions: Approx. 80 cm × 30 cm displayed

Each tapestry arrives complete with its mounting hardware

Delivery and returns
Dispatched from the Renaras atelier in Amsterdam within two working days, wrapped in tissue and sent in a rigid protective box. United Kingdom: £28, tracked and insured, arriving within three to five working days. All customs charges for United Kingdom deliveries are settled by the atelier; nothing further is payable on arrival. European Union: delivery included, three to five working days. Worldwide delivery on request. Returns are accepted within fourteen days of receipt in original condition; as every textile is singular and unrepeatable, we ask that pieces are handled with care.