As a small child my most precious possession was a box of beads. Like the king in his counting house counting out his money, the beads would be checked every day. Maybe from that magical box sprung the fascination to design embroideries… large, intricate pieces hand-embroidered by 2nd generation artisans from famed regions of West Bengal.

These embroideries are meant to be framed as wall pieces.

Complimentary with each embroidery is a copy of the Solar Year Calendar - Perpetual.

Solar Year Calendar - Perpetual

Size: 36”X36”

Images: Seven sun discs – Africa, Uzbekistan, Mesopotamia, China, Sweden, Aztec, India

Edition size: Open, made-to-order

Date: 2026

Production: Hand-embroidery on coated Novajet Photoart archival matte canvas

© 2001 by Priya Pereira

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Chinese Sun

A crow is the spirit of the sun in Chinese mythology.

Detail from a T-shaped painting on a second-century-BC shroud in Tomb 1 at Ma-wang-dui province, China. On the right is the mythical mulberry tree “Fusang” and nine red suns, the largest of which has a crow ~ The Sun in Myth and Art by Madanjeet Singh

Swedish Sun

Wheel-shaped whirls of Sweden. One of the earliest sun motifs seen on picture stones.

Stone from an Iron Age cemetery at Havoz, Gotland, Sweden ~ The Sun in Myth and Art by Madanjeet Singh

Aztec Sun

The Aztec ‘Stone of the Sun’.

The one sculpture which identifies the Mexicas above all others is the ‘Stone of the Sun’. It is a large gladiatorial sacrificial altar showing the face of Xiuhtecuhtli with his tongue transformed into a sacrificial knife ~ National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City

Indian Sun

Adityahrdayam means ‘Heart of the sun’. Recited correctly, it coincides with the rising of the sun, from the first ray to the complete disc.

Framed version of the Indian sun.