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The name of the project Garden of Stones and a Thousand Flowers refers to a Japanese rock garden, often called a Zen Garden and a medieval style known as Millefleurs literally "thousand flowers".
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This is a fragment from what may have been a much larger tapestry hanging.
It is a type know as millefleurs
This was a very popular style in the late 15th and early 16th century. Millefleurs were woven in many different centres and workshops in Northern France and Flanders. They often included small animals and birds among the flowers.
Tapestry fragment woven in wool and silk, depicting a unicorn, Flanders, ca.1500 V&A Museum
draw a postcard
The installation invites visitors to take part in the creation of the Garden of of Stones and a Thousand Flowers by drawing plants, flowers or the inhabitants of the garden on postcards .
photo: Anna Rikkinen
Art of Assemblage
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Find the Pearl
Box
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FloweRescue
Art Jewelry and Sculpture