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 [...]
Browsing the archives for the Faience Hippopotamus tag
15 Mar 11
6 Aug 10
So here is the Faience Hippopotamus finished. That is, unless I decide to go over him with another layer of long and short stitch to break up some of the patterning even further… I’m reasonably pleased with him, as a matter of fact. The loose weave of the base fabric was sometimes challenging to work [...]
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Posted in Dreams of Amarna, General Embroidery
Tagged Dreams of Amarna, experiments, Faience Hippopotamus, overdyed threads
Tagged Dreams of Amarna, experiments, Faience Hippopotamus, overdyed threads
23 Jul 10
The reason I am calling this poor fellow an experiment is that I’m working him in long and short stitch. I have said that working on the Floral Glove Needlecase project has been illuminating and that I am warming to long and short stitch – well, we’ll see what I think when I’ve worked an [...]
16 Jul 10
I have two Amarna projects already on the go (one of the backgrounds, and the Dig House) but they are both monochromatic, and you will have gathered that I like colour. So I thought I would experiment. Again! My rule for the panels and motifs is that I may only depict items that Mary Chubb [...]
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