The idea
Lots of things can be wrapped up from buildings to cars...
![acovered card](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/car_N8JxL4L.width-340.jpg)
A covered car © Sarah Sanders
![A covered building © Sarah Sanders](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/p1080211_Eh1obOu.width-340.jpg)
A covered building © Sarah Sanders
Textiles can be draped, hung and stretched over objects. This makes new, mysterious shapes.
Artists like Christo and Jeanne-Claude enjoy using textiles in their work too. Look at this enormous artwork called Wrapped Reichstag.
![Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-95](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/christo_t5jjYYu.width-340.jpg)
Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-95. Photo: Wolfgang Volz © 1995 Christo Source: christojeanneclaude.net
The Reichstag building is in Berlin and it's under all that cloth! It took 100,000 square meters of silvery fabric and over fifteen kilometers (about 9 miles) of blue ropes to wrap this up! The artwork was allowed to stay for two weeks in the summer of 1995.
What an incredible sight it must have been!
The plan
![](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_CBTUxIz.jpg)
Man Ray
L’Enigme d’Isidore Ducasse
(1920, remade 1972)
Tate
You are going to make your own artworks using stretched textiles and found objects.
Do it!
![Wrapped object](https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/textile_tryout_1_xhXqSYs.width-340.jpg)
© Sarah Sanders
- Find an object and wrap it in fabric.
- Secure the fabric by wrapping round the string and tape.
- Photograph your object. How has it changed? What does it look like now?