Sewing Machine Wharf on the Canal Quarter

A blue sewing machine decorated with roses and green leaves sits on a green base with arched doorways, a spool of pink thread on top and a green and orange handwheel at its right. Under the needle, a patterned ribbon of cloth trails out across the plate. The checkered work surface holds a yellow warehouse, a purple lookout hut on stilts, rolls of fabric and ferns, where people carry cloth, stitch and unfold sheets. Houses stand on the machine's arm. Surrounding it are canals with wooden boats loaded with fabric, arched bridges, dye vats, washing lines and rows of pastel houses in blue, green, yellow and pink. The bridges and canals separate the neighbourhood into fields of colour.