Louise Bourgeois: Corkboard Placemat Gift Set

This set of four corkboard placemats features works from Louise Bourgeois's textile archives. Fabric played an important role in the artist's life. She grew up surrounded by the textiles of her parents' tapestry restoration workshop. From the age of twelve, she helped the business by drawing in the sections of the missing parts that were to be repaired. A life-long hoarder of clothes and household items such as tablecloths, napkins and bed linen, Bourgeois began cutting up and re-stitching these lived materials in the mid-1990s, transforming them into art. Through sewing, she attempted a psychological repair:

"I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.”