The Gordian Knottapestry, designed by British artist Keith Tyson and woven by weavers Chris Cochius, Sue Batten, Pamela Joyce and Milena Paplinska has been donated to the State Library of Victoria by Elisabeth Murdoch and Keith Tyson. This complex circular tapestry is on view in the Redmond Barry Reading Room at the State Library.

The design for the tapestry is based on the Gordian Knot. a legend of Phrygian Gordium associated with Alexander the Great. It is often used as a metaphor for an intractable problem (disentangling an “impossible” knot) or “thinking outside the box” (cutting the Gordian knot”). In this design a central knot of fibres come together to form a modern-day Gordian Knot, biological, technological, cosmological, mythological and sociological evolutions all being woven together as a reflection of the world. The tapestry is circular, and took ATW weavers a combined 2,064 hours to complete.