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Subject:        London tube/subway/metro map as tapestry
Date:   Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:10:14 -0000
From:   Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]>
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In /Metro/ (London edition) of yesterday, Monday 1 March 2010, the top
half of p.27 is given to a colour-illustrated feature on “Brighton-based
textile artist” Lucy Sparrow and her tapestry map (“9sq m”) of the
London Underground. For the web version of this /Metro/ piece see:-

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/815344-artist-has-the-tube-in-stitches-with-her-tube-map-tapestry

The web version depicts a little more than does the hard copy of the
map. But the artist’s model (to ‘coin a phrase’) must date from early
2008 or before as the new station of Shepherd’s Bush Market on the
Hammersmith & City Line – since 13 December 2009 also denominated as the
Circle Line extension from Hammersmith to Paddington - is lacking; and
the Overground link from Clapham Junction, /via/ the Central Line’s
Shepherd’s Bush, to Watford Junction likewise is absent. _But_ –
especially for the likes of Wolfgang Lierz and Vladimiro Valerio – the
River Thames is includedJ

Journalist/writer of the piece, Miles Erwin, informs that the artist
“next plans to make tapestries of other subway systems at home and
abroad”. Historical maps for starting to collect now? To be seen at the
British Library in Peter Barber’s forthcoming map exhibition . . .?

PS: I could have weaved a number of puns and pseudo-jokes into this
posting . . .

Francis Herbert

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