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Tapestry, a rare and demanding art

High-warp tapestry is an exceptional art.
This precious know-how, transmitted in France over the centuries, requires patience, precision and infinite attention to detail. Each piece is entirely hand-woven on a traditional loom, in a process that can sometimes last several months for the same work.
No machine can reproduce this grain, this density, this colored vibration of the yarn. It is the hand, the eye, the gesture, that give life to the tapestry and make it unique.

A contemplative universe, imprinted with freedom

At the heart of my work is joy. The one I feel in life, in a moment suspended to contemplate the beauty that surrounds us, in front of a landscape, a place to discover, a place where we return. I weave memories, dreamed or real images, sometimes figurative, sometimes abstract, always crossed by an emotion, marked by nostalgia.

My imagination draws on the aesthetics of the 60s and 70s, the music I listen to continuously, the cinema that inspires me, the places loaded with images or my family history. A time that I have not known, but that accompanies me and guides me in my creative work.

I want to create works that sublimate an interior, settle there naturally and become, day after day, a source of pleasure and shared emotion.

My studio

I chose this life : that of an art studio in Brittany, lost in the middle of the countryside, surrounded by flowers, the river, birds and my family. 
This framework allows me to create freely and to go to the end of my requirements : a meticulous, precise work, faithful to the great tradition of French weavers.

Trained for two years at the prestigious Manufacture des Gobelins in Paris, I learned the rigor and virtuosity that make the French tapestry famous all over the world. Today, I continue this know-how with passion, by creating unique pieces or limited series, always in small quantities, to preserve this rare luxury: time.

Three ways to welcome a tapestry in your home:

- The small series, often graphic and colored, in limited edition of three tapestries.

- Unique pieces, more complex and very demanding projects, imagined as real thread paintings.

- Custom-made tapestries, created in dialogue with you, to weave a personal project that will fit perfectly into your interior.

Who am I ?

My name is Elvire Debitus, I'm a textile artist, born in the Loire Valley in 1990.
After a time of life in Oceania, life changing, then a comeback in France, in Bordeaux, I live today in the north of Brittany, between sea and countryside, with my husband and our little boy.
My daily life is an old loom from the 70s, wool yarns in a thousand colors, the constancy of the gesture, the diversity and curiosity that this work offers me, a fruit pie from the garden and surfing in the ocean at the end of the day.
I spend my days weaving, listening to music, dreaming of road trips to the US and rejoicing in the simplicity of a life away from the world.
In all this, there is a search for freedom, an attention to the beauty of the world, a desire to live as close as possible to the essentials, which I slip into each of my tapestries.


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