Serial Drapery

Welcome to the Cosmic Drapery Flags blog.

Cosmic Drapery Flags is part of a series of inter-connected works in The Cosmic Drapery Project by the artist Kristen Alvanson. Cosmic Drapery Flags is a collective project in which numerous women participate in creating hanging flags (each 90 cm wide by 119 cm long) made of heavy black crepe-like fabric on which nomadic fabric is appliquéd on to both sides of the flag by means of stitchery. These appliqués and their emerging stitches turn the black fabric into an ultimate entity of syncretic drapery. For more information regarding the project visit the Cosmic Drapery section of the artist’s website [Cosmic Drapery Flags].

This blog has been created to document the flags' development -- to track the flags and show updated embroidery work. The first six flags were sent out in 2007. To begin, an update of each flag will be provided.