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Artist: Carrie Roy
Materials: wool, mulberry silk
To create this map, artist Carrie Roy used materials reflecting two important fibers in Shakespeare's time: wool and mulberry silk. Shakespeare's father was involved in wide-scale wool dealing in the 1570s, and in 1608 King James attempted to establish a silk industry in England by importing thousands of mulberry trees.
In Carrie's words:
"This map is also a reflection on the efforts of the First Folio tour. The logistics of bringing this book to 52 venues across the country and providing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view the First Folio in person -- experiencing this closeness, the inviting tangible, almost touchable effect of seeing this historic artifact in person -- is incredibly moving and inspired the soft, textured, inviting surface of the tour map." |