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
30 Nov 10
I have finished the first trial of the Felucca design. As I always say of these design fragments, I do not yet know whether they will make it to the final piece. You can barely see the stitching on the coastline – I used a fine thread and spaced the stitches far apart. For the [...]
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Posted in Dreams of Amarna, General Embroidery
Tagged design elements, Dreams of Amarna, experiments, Felucca, overdyed threads
Tagged design elements, Dreams of Amarna, experiments, Felucca, overdyed threads
16 Nov 10
I’m afraid that this photo isn’t as good as I hoped it would be, but it does show the progress I am making on the Felucca. I realised that not only did I need to have the sails completed before I put all of the sky in, but I needed to put the Nile in [...]
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Posted in Dreams of Amarna, Large Embroidery Projects
Tagged Dreams of Amarna, Felucca, overdyed threads
Tagged Dreams of Amarna, Felucca, overdyed threads
12 Nov 10
I’ve begun to work on the Felucca design I have already described. As I am not at all sure about the colours or the stitching that I will want on the final panels (remember this is to be a design element for the edging panels I described a little while ago), or even the scale, [...]
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Posted in Dreams of Amarna, Large Embroidery Projects
Tagged Dreams of Amarna, experiments, Felucca, overdyed threads
Tagged Dreams of Amarna, experiments, Felucca, overdyed threads
5 Nov 10
The photograph here is a close up from one of those that the Egypt Exploration Society made available to me, and shows a Nile felucca in passage with a cargo. Mary Chubb describes in her book the expedition’s arrival at the site on a felucca, one of the traditional sail-driven freighters of the Nile and [...]
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