Enter Sheffield’s Central Library and Graves Art Gallery and, just before the entrance to the Lending Library, stop and look up.  What you see above you is Blue Bird by Japanese-born, Sheffield-based textile artist Seiko Kinoshita.   Made from paper yarn which is hand-dyed and woven, this wonderful work is said to be inspired by Maurice Maeterlinck’s 1908 play, The Blue Bird, about the search for happiness.

Here is Seiko Kinoshita’s website, where you can read about what inspires her and how she works.