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Elena Goaga, my mother, was born on July
12,
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 unfor tunately
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 inventory
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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