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Painter Alison Watt has spent 18 months collaborating with Dovecot Studios - the UK's oldest practicing tapestry studio 鈥� on Butterfly, a huge new piece for Scottish Opera which is to be hung in Glasgow鈥檚 Theatre Royal in early 2015.

Inspired by the opera Madama Butterfly, and with the weaving led by Dovecot鈥檚 Master Weaver Naomi Robertson, the completed piece measures 5.6m x 4.2m and will hang over three floors in the theatre's foyer.

Watt said: 鈥淢adama Butterfly has always been my inspiration. It's a work which has such an impact on the senses and I wanted to create an emotional landscape with my work; to find a way to evoke the powerful themes of love and loss which pour from Puccini's masterpiece.鈥�

This short film from Dovecot Studios tells the fascinating story of the making of the piece.