Description
17 typescript and 9 autograph letters from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Joanne Soroka discussing tapestries commissioned from Ivory Tapestries by Finlay between 1988 and 1997 and 26 carbon copies of letters from Soroka to Finlay, and 3 diagrams and a slide. The tapestries were all based on Finlay's concrete poetry and mainly consisted of one-word-per-line short poems: Star/Steer, Wave, Wave/rock. Tye/cringle & Green waters, &c.
Footnote
Note: The tapestries were shown at exhibitions, including the ICA in London. The correspondence is of note as they illustrate the creative process behind some of the very few tapestries Ian Hamilton Finlay had made.