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The "Giverny Dream" Scroll | Impressionist Silk Tapestry
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Where Japanese silk meets the floating world. Woven at the intersection of two traditions, once.
The Giverny Dream is a vintage Japanese silk scroll handcrafted by Renaras from a high-density Nishijin Jacquard weave textile — 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, of beauty that arises from depth — rendered in an abstract, atmospheric palette of amethyst violet, cobalt blue, teal, and shimmering silver metallic thread with the layered, painterly quality of light on a twilight pond. The composition is not a reproduction. It is a textile that thinks the same thought that Claude Monet thought standing at Giverny: 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 Monet achieved with oil on canvas, this Nishijin weaver achieved with silk thread on a Jacquard loom — the same subject, the same quality of attention, two entirely different materials and traditions arriving at the same place.
The cultural connection is not coincidental. The French Impressionists were profoundly influenced by Japanese art — Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, botanical scrolls, the Ma (間) principle of meaningful empty space — and Monet's garden at Giverny, including the famous Japanese bridge over the water lily pond, was itself a deliberate recreation of a Japanese aesthetic in French soil. The Giverny Dream is the textile that completes this circle: a Japanese Nishijin weave that looks back at the European tradition that was looking at Japan, the two gazes meeting in a single surface of extraordinary atmospheric depth. The high-density Jacquard construction produces a rich, tactile surface where individual thread colours are layered in a pointillist manner — violet over blue over teal over silver — each thread contributing to a colour field that shifts with the viewing angle and the light source, never resolving into a flat image, always remaining in motion.
In a contemporary European interior, the Giverny Dream is the most culturally resonant piece in the Woven Dynasty 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, or any space that benefits from the particular quality of something that has been 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.
One pond. Two traditions. Woven once.
Dimensions Approx. 100 × 35 cm displayed
Fabric Vintage high-density Nishijin Jacquard weave
Technique Layered Jacquard — pointillist thread composition in metallic and silk thread
Motif Suiren water lily, abstract impressionist
Colourway Amethyst violet, cobalt blue, teal, silver metallic
Format Hanging scroll — natural wood dowels. Hanger sold separately.
Provenance Authentic Japanese vintage textile, sourced from verified estate collections
Condition Vintage — one of a kind. No restock.
Care Do not expose to direct sunlight. Do not wet clean.
Shipping Fully insured, worldwide delivery.
Complete your display: The Giverny Dream is designed to hang on the Renaras Artisan Silk Hanger — sold separately — in Natural Wood finish to complement the cool violet and silver tones of this scroll.
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ConditionExcellentColorsPurple, Green, Multi Color, SilverMaterialmaterial-silkNumber of items1OrientationPortraitArt sizeLargeHeight100 cmWidth30 cm
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Amsterdam, NetherlandsOn Whoppah since January 2026 • 0 sales