Assenede surprise visit for the visitor who has spent several years working on the ‘Carpet of Assenede’. Queen Paola arrived Tuesday to take a look, and even tried quite a while to embroider. “We are very pleased with this unexpected visit. We got a grab the congratulations of our queen”, it sounds.
it’s Been four years and up to 35,000 hours is stitched to that which is within two years of the Carpet of Assenede. On a carpet of about a hundred metres long will you the love story of Floris ende Blancefloer can read. It is mainly stitched in the local ’t Holleken in Assenede, and there was there Tuesday suddenly high visit. “Queen Paola came along with her friend, the Polish artist Countess Maka Cielecka-Simiensky,” says projectvoorzitter Annie De Smet. “It was a surprise private visit to the site visitor. At my invitation, the queen has also a few embroidery stitches to put on a few canvases for the tapestry. Afterwards, we drove to the Dutch Axel, where the fifty already embroidered cloths until the end of this month will be showcased in the museum The department Store.”
