Customer Reviews

White Mountain Puzzles Tapestry Cat

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Just looking at the picture of what this puzzle would look like once I had finished it was enough to make me want to order it. I put it out on the table on Christmas Day for everybody to have the opportunity to work on it. In all, only 3 of us were willing to try. This is a very challenging puzzle for several reasons.

First - the puzzle is so large (24 x 30) that it takes up almost the entire width of my old farmhouse style kitchen table. I had to do a lot of standing up and walking around just to reach all sections of the puzzle.

Second - the motifs are exact repeats within the two borders. The outer border has four identical motifs in each corner so you never knew which pieces went with which corner. The other band of border is a different motif, which repeats endlessly around the entire inside.

All in all, this is a wonderfully challenging puzzle. This definitely requires patience. Time after time I was sure that a particular piece had been left out only to finally find what I was looking for. Many of the pieces also fit together very nicely, but proved to be the wrong piece for that spot. It took me about 5 1/2 days to finish the puzzle but I had help from two other people when it was first put out. I would have liked to just leave it up and work it at my leisure, but such is not my nature. Now it will sit out for a while so that I can admire the picture. I was working on it so intently I didn't see the beauty of it until I was finished.

On the average, I work one puzzle per week (1,000 pc). I live in the panhandle of Florida and it has been hard finding different puzzles in this area. Therefore, I went to the internet...Amazon, of course! I found this puzzle and was immediately drawn to it by the picture itself and by the reviews. So, I must add that this is the most fun puzzle I have ever worked. I thought it was going to be extremely difficult, but it is not that hard, although it is challenging! And whoever said the pieces didn't stay together needs to work some of the puzzles I've worked where the pieces really DON'T stay together. This puzzle is great. The pieces stay together very well and they fit together nicely. I absolutely love this puzzle and would highly recommend it to anyone who is a jigsaw puzzle enthusiast like me.

The repetitive nature of the border made this puzzle very challenging indeed. I am a cat lover and enjoyed this puzzle very much. I plan on assembling it for a 2nd time before framing it--the intricate border will double as a matte. It truly is a piece of art.

I bought this puzzle for my wife as a surprise gift because she was very much into puzzle in the past few months.

Well! This puzzle might have been beyond her league. She was too proud to give up but she was extremely frustrated by the puzzle inside the puzzle. A lot of curses!! Finally, to save our marriage, I had to join the effort. With mental support to each other, we finished it in a week.

Since there is no clear indication of which corner is which, everything is floating until the border finally joined. I discovered the only absolute reference is the flowers at the left and right edges. They are slight different.

This is the most challenging puzzle we have ever seen. Don't test your marriage with this puzzle. It might break yours.

Yet, the outcome is very satisfying. The puzzle was glued and hanged and will be shown to our home visitors as a proud accomplishment. Everybody will be impressed by the immediately apparent difficulty of it while the marriage is still intact.

Durable pieces. Enjoyable puzzle. Loved the final outcome so much we decided to glue it and plan to hang it. The border will take you days! Loved it.

For you jigsaw puzzle fans who are accustomed to putting one together in a evening, be prepared! The border is repeating with a lot of dark colors and same-colored flowers are also repeated in different areas of the puzzle, so I'm finding myself always shuffling around 3 or 4 pieces that have been joined to try to fit them into the rest of the puzzle. Maybe you're better than I am, though.

The colors are true to what's pictured on my computer screen in the product description and it's going to be a puzzle I glue together to keep. I can even imagine it in an elaborate large-bordered gold frame.

Great loooking puzzle that I gave as a gift to a family member who just loves it.

She normally breaks down puzzles after they are done but this one she is going to glue and frame.

Perfect for cat lovers.

If you like puzzles like puzzles that are challanging this ones for you. It took my husband and myself about 3 weeks to put this together. We also glued it so we could hang it on the wall in our dineing room its so beautiful the colors are absolutly georgeous.

This is like two puzzles in one: the border is almost mathematical in its design; the cat and floral pattern are more baroque. Despite these positive features, the puzzle pieces do not interlock well; you cannot pick up and move a block of pieces; and the shapes of the pieces are quite standard. In the future, I will only buy Springbok puzzles.

You have to have patience with this puzzle .organize arming the puzzle from the outside towards the inside.

One drawback is that the pieces do not lock tight.

If you like a challenge this puzzle is for you.