The Banners Find a Home

A year and a half ago, I think, I wrote about a set of banners that were a cooperative process between a Thai batik crafts person, another OMFer and me. The banners took a really long time to put together and send to their intended place at our newly refurbished International Headquarters in Singapore.  I found out earlier this year that due to some unspecified problems they had not yet been hung.  Then in the last week I received photos by email from two different friends of the banners hanging, not in some open atrium as I had been lead to imagine, but on the walls in the office area.  I suppose if I had known that they were going to be open to close scrutiny I would have fretted more about the stitching and they would have taken even more time to put together.  Sometimes it's better not to know.

Banners for IHQ Singapore

The banners I've been working on for about 9 months are complete and waiting to be transported to Singapore. Before you get all excited about how I did the graphics, let me say that they were done by Thai craftspersons - working in batik and silk screening. My job was to get them all to the same size, add the lettering, join with batting and backing, apply the borders and hanging sleeves on the back.

I was working at odd moments between my other jobs and activities, and some of the difficulties required study and thought. Hopefully I got the measurements right and they will fit into the space that has been prepared for them.

I've never been to Singapore, but maybe I'll get there some day. It would be nice to see these installed in their place.