Colourful Carpets

1984

Illustrator
Vive Tolli
Genre
fiction
 
picturebook
Original
Language
Estonian
Publisher
Kunst
Year
1984
Pages
24
Age
8+

Synopsis

The book is a fairy tale about Ma, Pa, and a lamb. Ma (who should become the First Mother, but there is no nice place to put a child) weaves a massive carpet on a loom borrowed from the future, and simultaneously creates the world. She finishes it, and then Pa gives every country a name, because politics is still more of a man thing. Motifs from old Estonian rugs are used in Vive Toll’s decorative-styled pictures.

Translated into Dutch

Translations

Bonte tapijten

Dutch

, Tolli, Buyle, 1989 , 24 lk

Die Geschichte von der teppichbunten Welt

German

, Tolli, Sepp, 1987 , 24 lk

Colourful Carpets

English

, Tolli, Sillamägi, 1987 , 22 lk