I did say, when I first began working on the “Dreams of Amarna” panels, that I did not intend to become an Egyptologist. I still don’t, but at the same time, my interest in the Egyptology of the thirties, and in what Mary Chubb might have known or had access to, has extended somewhat as [...]
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15 May 12
24 Feb 12
The cultivation on the Map of Amarna will take quite a while to do, but since I’m really quite happy with the progress it is making, I thought I would post a quick update on it. The scatter of tête de boeuf stitches is as much as I have managed to do since I finally [...]
12 Jul 11
You may recall that having worked most of the Map of Amarna, I then ran into a brick wall, and could not decide which thread to use for the last, rather extensive element – the depiction of the cultivation. I decided, in the end, that I would use the more golden of the plain silk [...]
29 Apr 11
I recently had a trip to London, when I managed to fit in a brief visit to The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology as part of my background research for the Dreams of Amarna panels. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie excavated at Amarna during the 1890s, finding and recording a fine painted pavement, since destroyed, [...]
29 Mar 11
After finishing the text and the villages on the Map, I need to decide what to use for the cultivation… You may recall from my earlier post that I have decided on the stitch I’m going to use – tête de boeuf stitch – but that I’ve not quite worked out what thread to use. [...]
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Tagged design elements, Dreams of Amarna, experiments, stitches, The Map of Amarna
Tagged design elements, Dreams of Amarna, experiments, stitches, The Map of Amarna
18 Mar 11
You may recall that the first large element of the panels for Dreams of Amarna that I am stitching is a map of the site shown in Mary Chubb’s book. It was easy to decide that I wanted to use reverse herringbone stitch for the contours of the high ground around the site, and unbroken [...]
15 Mar 11
This weekend I went to the exhibition “Tutankhamun – His Tomb and His Treasures” at the Museum of Museums near Manchester’s Trafford Centre. Partly just for fun, and partly because Mary Chubb mentions the huge excitement over Howard Carter’s discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb as some of the “social background”, if you will, in her book [...]
11 Jan 11
This photograph shows a completed section of the Amarna Map, which demonstrates most of the design choices I have made as I went along. The long lines to the left in the picture are worked simply in Chain stitch and represent the Nile that runs beside the site. Small tête de boeuf stitches represent the cultivation, [...]
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Tagged Dreams of Amarna, Perseverence, The Map of Amarna
Tagged Dreams of Amarna, Perseverence, The Map of Amarna
4 Jan 11
Fortunately for me, I’d already had plenty of ideas for working the Map of Amarna for the first of the background panels, and in fact, as soon as I decided to include it there was one section about which I was absolutely certain – the contour lines. I’ve worked them in Reverse Herringbone Stitch. The [...]
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Tagged Dreams of Amarna, Perseverence, The Map of Amarna
Tagged Dreams of Amarna, Perseverence, The Map of Amarna
28 Dec 10
I described the first of the background panels I am planning for the Dreams of Amarna a few months ago. I will describe some of the other stitching I have done on it in another post, but I have been racking my brains since I began stitching, trying to work out how to embroider the [...]
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Tagged Dreams of Amarna, stitches, The Map of Amarna
Tagged Dreams of Amarna, stitches, The Map of Amarna
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