Japanese Ceremonial Silk Wall Tapestry – The Giverny Dream, Suiren Water Lily in Violet and Silver

Where Japanese silk meets the floating world. Woven at the intersection of two traditions, once.

The Giverny Dream is mounted from a high-density Nishijin Jacquard obi — the same loom tradition that produced the ceremonial obi of the Japanese aristocratic court, here applied to a subject that sits at the precise intersection of two great visual cultures. The motif is Suiren (睡蓮) — the water lily, Japan's symbol of purity emerging from still water — rendered in an abstract atmospheric palette of amethyst violet, cobalt blue, teal, and shimmering silver metallic thread. The composition is not a reproduction but a textile that thinks the same thought a French Impressionist thought looking at water: that still water holds the sky, that colour and reflection are the same substance, that the moment just before dark is when everything becomes most itself. What oil-on-canvas achieved in nineteenth-century France, this Nishijin weaver achieved with silk thread on a Jacquard loom — the same subject, the same quality of attention, two materials and two traditions arriving at the same place.

At the atelier we cut a length from the woven obi, redesigned the composition for vertical wall format, and lined the back with undyed support cloth. The piece is mounted between handmade hardwood bars at the top and bottom, finished with a leather hanging cord, and supplied ready to hang. The bars are part of the work, not a separate purchase. The visible silk is the obi as it was woven.

The Giverny Dream is the most culturally resonant piece in the collection — and the one with the broadest appeal across buyers who may not have entered through Japanese textile culture. The violet and silver palette brings depth and atmospheric quality to a bedroom, a creative studio, a music room, the bar of a boutique hotel, or any space that benefits from the quality of something considered from more than one direction. It pairs with dusty plum, aged silver, warm white plaster, pale oak, and the quiet surfaces of a room furnished for contemplation.

Renaras: existing Japanese ceremonial silk, preserved at gallery scale and brought into rooms where it can be seen.

Each tapestry arrives with its own passport from the atelier — a handmade record of the obi's first life, the composition that was cut from it, the lining and mounting it received, signed and dated in Amsterdam.

Material: Japanese ceremonial silk, high-density Nishijin Jacquard weave with silver metallic thread
Dimensions: Approx. 100 × 35 cm displayed
Construction: Cut and redesigned from a Japanese ceremonial silk obi, lined to support the silk threads, mounted on handmade hardwood bars and finished with a leather hanging cord. Bars and cord supplied. No metal touches the visible silk.
Care: Dust with a soft brush. Avoid direct sunlight.
Origin: Japanese ceremonial silk, redesigned and finished at the Renaras atelier, Netherlands.

Each tapestry arrives complete with its mounting hardware. For private viewings and hospitality enquiries, contact the atelier.

One silk. One story. One piece. Never repeated.