Here you can find unique goblens, only one ithem of each, hand-made by my mother.  Note: If you are closed to Boston, MA I can deliver them to you or you can stop by to see them live.

Goblens Made with Love by my sweet Mom

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    Elena Goaga, my mother, was born on July My Mom working on new goblen12, 1951 in Romania. About 30 years ago she fell in love with making goblens/gobelins. Since then she's been working very hard, every day, hours and hours, with love, making these great piece of art. At the beginning it was more like a hobby, but after years and years of work it become a regular job for my Mom. Now she has more then 50 done. She just retired in Romania, country in which unforMy Mom working on a new goblentunately the retirement payments are not enough for her.

So here I am, her young son, leaving in US for years and now opening this small store for my lovely Mom. We have only 18 goblens for sale because she loves them so much and it is hard to see them going away...

So hurry they wont last too long : see inventoryMy mom working

    These are goblens/gobelins, which means that it is an embroidery sewn point by point. Each sign from the painting represents a classical loop or a sole pinprick across a thread of the canvas oblique, to the right and upwards. She used for a very good quality embroidery a canvas with density of 10 loops/1cm, respectively 100 loops/cm2 sewing with 2 threads of embroidery thread ( Moulin thread).
    The colors (23 different ones) can last for hundreds of years because they are specially made for this type of embroidery . Each one took 2-3 months of hard work , up to 9-11 hours a day, because she had to respect all the indication for creating a very good gobelin: not to stretch the thread or twist it back during the sewing, to follow one color only and on the shortest way possible until the thread in the needle ends, not sewing with knots on back  etc...
 

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