The collection

Every tapestry, grouped by subject

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Unframed mill landscape with a sloping roof, stream and pale cloud-filled sky — The complete front before framing, with the cloth margin visible around the landscape. Open the full-size photograph (new tab)

Religious scenes

Jesus, Mary and the apostles, together with a blessing for the home.

Stitched household blessing with a cross and book inside a brown frame

A scroll blessing for the home

A Bulgarian blessing for the home, in brown Cyrillic letters on a scroll.

Jesus with bowed head and clasped hands, wearing a pale robe inside an ornate frame

Jesus in prayer

Jesus with his head bowed over his clasped hands, in soft whites and greys.

Mary and infant Jesus with pale patterned robes and decorated halos on unframed cloth

Virgin Mary with infant Jesus

Mary holds the infant Jesus under a gold and cream arch, like an icon.

Unframed outdoor gathering with Jesus in red and white beneath a broad blue sky

Jesus and the apostles beside the water

Jesus opens his arms to the apostles beside the water, under a big sky.

Jesus reaching towards a wooden door, with blue clothing, a red cloak and flowers nearby

Jesus knocking at the door

Jesus in a red cloak, his hand raised to knock at a wooden door.

Jesus raising one hand beside a kneeling woman, with a rocky opening and distant crosses

Salvation: Jesus and a kneeling woman

A woman in a blue cloak kneels and reaches up to Jesus.

Unframed Last Supper needlework with grouped apostles, patterned walls and a white tablecloth

The Last Supper tapestry

The apostles gathered along a long white table, with Jesus at the centre.

Portraits

Carmen, three portraits of Princess Diana, and women with flowers, a book and a guitar.

Dark-haired woman with a red headscarf and white blouse in a carved dark frame

Carmen: a portrait in red and gold

Dark curls, red lips and a red headscarf.

Woman holding orange and white flowers beneath a red fringed shawl in a brown frame

Spanish Autumn: a woman holding flowers

A dark-haired woman in a fringed red shawl bends over her flowers.

Young reader in a yellow dress seated against a cushion, enclosed by a carved brown frame

Girl reading, after Jean-Honoré Fragonard

A girl in yellow lost in a tiny book, after Fragonard.

Smiling woman holding a guitar, wearing a red shawl and hoop earrings inside a dark frame

Woman with a guitar

A laughing woman in red strums her guitar.

Stitched portrait of Princess Diana with a tiara, blue eyes and pale dress on a navy background

Princess Diana portrait with a tiara

Diana smiling under a tiara, against deep navy.

Unframed Princess Diana portrait with a patterned purple dress, pale background and drop earrings

Princess Diana in a purple dress

Diana in purple, calm and unsmiling.

Brown and cream stitched portrait of a smiling Princess Diana with swept hair and a square earring

Princess Diana in sepia tones

Diana in browns and creams, like an old photograph.

Places and nature

Country scenes, a waterfall, horses and an old street in Plovdiv.

Mill beside a stream with trees, small figures and a distant stone bridge in a brown frame

Pastoral watermill tapestry inspired by François Boucher

A mill, a stream and a stone bridge, after a painting by Boucher.

Chestnut, black and white horses gathered over blue water in a brown frame

Horses at the watering place

Three horses at the water, from Rosi’s early tapestries.

Timber chalet with red roof and flowered balconies in a green woodland clearing

Mountain hut among green trees

A timber house with flowered balconies in a sunny clearing.

Walkers crossing a wooden bridge towards a church beneath tall trees

The path to church

Walkers cross a footbridge on the way to a church among the trees.

Multiple blue-white cascades descending between rocks beneath a lake and distant hills

Waterfall between rocky cliffs

Long white falls drop between grey cliffs into a foaming pool.

Narrow Old Plovdiv street between pink and cream houses with overhanging upper floors

Old Plovdiv street and traditional houses

Traditional houses and deep eaves along a street in Old Plovdiv.

Scenes and still lifes

An autumn still life, a ballroom, a storm at sea and a fairy on the moon.

Autumn branches in a green vase beside a red wine glass, shown in a brown frame

Autumn leaves and a wine glass

Autumn branches in a green vase beside a glass of red wine.

Woman holding a stone cross as white-tipped waves break around the rock below her

Woman at a stone cross in stormy seas

A woman in a red cloak clings to a stone cross as waves break.

Unframed ballroom scene with two dancing couples, a seated woman in pink and string players

Ballroom dance with string musicians

Two couples dance beneath a chandelier while musicians play.

Winged fairy in a pale blue dress resting on a crescent moon inside a dark decorative frame

Fairy resting on a crescent moon

A fairy rests on a crescent moon among the stars.

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