Wendy Morrison Design to launch new hand-knotted rug for Spring

Wendy Morrison Design, the Scottish textiles designer specializing in luxury hand-crafted rugs and home furnishings, are launching a new hand-knotted rug 100 Birds One Hundred Flowers this spring. As the fair weather season approaches, people's minds are thinking more about springtime and some of the joyous colours and shapes nature has to offer. One Hundred Birds 100 Flowers is a hand-knotted design inspired by a pair of hanging scrolls from the Edo period by Suzuki Kitsu (1796 - 1858) called 100 Birds and 100 Hundred Animals. 

As the title suggests it is composed of many Animals and Birds - some imaginary, some native, others from foreign lands all coexisting within these scrolls, set against a densely coloured blue-green landscape amid blossoming flowers and plants from all four seasons. The animal scroll seems to be a prayer for good fortune and peace, creating a Buddhist paradise, or land of the immortals, another reflection of how many following the pandemic are sharing more of themselves within their homes and its interiors.