The choreographer, dancer, and textile artist Noa Eshkol often collectively produced her collaged, mostly large-format, colorful wall carpets from found fabrics. They were created during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when she was unable to continue her dance rehearsals and found new forms of artistic expression.

“Yellow Tree” belongs to a body of textile works vividly depicting trees in variations of color and form. The works are defined by repetitive structures of fabric scraps, symmetrical rhythms, spirals, or arcs. Although Eshkol aimed to keep her dance and her wall carpets separate, movement was a defining feature of both genres.