Composing a big tapestry with perseverance

Heather Heim is an ordinary old woman in Hampshire, England. Twenty years ago, Heather’s grandson was born, and she resigned to go home with her grandson, when she was 50 years old. Two years later, when the child entered the kindergarten, Heather became boring and wanted to find something for himself.

At the time of his youth, Heather had learned to woven a blanket with his mother. Although she has not used the craft, she still misses the years of woven blankets, so she went to buy some wool ropes. For a month, a simple blanket was made for the little grandson.

Heather’s neighbors persuaded her to say that the age is getting bigger. When it’s okay, go to the puppies, go to the park or drink coffee, there’s no need to do anything worthless, but Heather. I feel that their ideas are really vain, and there is no value at all. One of the neighbors even said to her in a suspicious tone: "I can guarantee that you are only three minutes hot, busy for two months, you will not be interested again!"

The neighbor's words made Heather determined to continue this matter, but also to create value, but what is the value? Money, Heather is not very necessary, she feels that only persist in his perseverance is The greatest value, so I decided to weave a world's largest tapestry.

As for the motif of the tapestry, Heather avoided the ordinary mountains and rivers and flowers and plants, but chose famous events and figures from around the world, such as the "Apollo" moon landing, the origin of Hollywood and the Olympic Games, and pop music. In order to ensure that every detail is accurate, Heather often goes to libraries and museums to access information.

After that, Heather got up and woven the tapestry every day without any light. It took an hour to start making breakfast. After the family had eaten and went out to work, she continued to weave. Weaving patterns requires the use of different colors of wool ropes. This is a very complicated job, and sometimes it takes even a few tens of minutes to get the best color matching. At noon, Heather’s family didn’t go home to eat. This was a good thing for Heather because she didn’t want to have anything to disturb her woven tapestry. It’s often a bit of breakfast for the rest of the meal. Sometimes I call a cheap takeaway, sometimes I even forget to eat...

In the evening, she didn't wait to stop making dinner. The family started watching TV or chatting after dinner, and Heather began to weave without stopping. Heather worked day and night, and he had to take care of life while Make sure you can sew at least 12 hours a day, sometimes even sleeping for two hours a day.

Later, Heather's shoulder began to numb, and finally had to go to the hospital for surgery, but after she recovered a little, she soon began to weave the tapestry. Heather's left eye vision is also very bad, suffering from light Degree of cataract, but Heather is not willing to go to surgery, because eye surgery will waste her a lot of time, so she just prayed every day, hoping to make the tapestry before the left eye is scrapped.

Time passed by, and in August 2019, Heather finally hit the last knot of this tapestry... A world's largest tapestry of 50 square meters was finally completed, it consists of 23 1.5 square meters to 6 square meters. The small section of the meter is composed of all the patterns, and the area is twice as large as the famous Bayeux tapestry. Heather spent 17 years on it and began to weave a blond Heather, which is already a A 69-year-old white-haired old man.

The artistic value of this tapestry attracted the attention of the Royal Society of Fine Arts, who persuaded Heather to display it in Linde's art gallery, and Alan Cummings, vice chairman of the Royal Society of Fine Arts, said with exclamation "Heather is amazing, it is woven into a great work of art with perseverance!"