Genesis

By: Terence Mbulaheni

“…I grabbed the Bible, opened up Genesis, and I said go…”, said Christina Roy when asked how she began  to imagine  a work of this magnitude. Her key roles in the Tapestry Project included researching the story, collaborating with the embroiders in Newfoundland, selecting the colours to match her husband, Jean-Claude’s drawings, taking photos of the nearly endless drawings that made up the 70 metre tapestry, and e-mailing them with instructions to the embroiderers. The hardworking and creative embroiders would then project all the pictures onto a linen, trace the scenes and get down to bringing all the historical stories to life.

Christina Roy & Jean-Claude Roy

Christina is a doctor by training, with a longstanding interest in embroidery.  She and her husband Jean-Claude Roy came up with the idea of designing an embroidered tapestry showing the history of Newfoundland after visiting the Bayeux Museum in France. She collaborated with the French Shore Historical Society to adapt the concept to tell the story of Newfoundland’s historic French Shore.

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