{"id":1000,"date":"2010-12-17T09:09:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T09:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2011-05-17T14:59:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T13:59:38","slug":"the-camberwell-panel-another-long-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/17\/the-camberwell-panel-another-long-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Camberwell Panel \u2013 Another Long Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1001\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Camberwell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1001\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Camberwell.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph of the SS Camberwell\" width=\"100\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph of the Camberwell<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Camberwell Panel was a commission from my cousin. I documented the design and progress of the work for her while I was doing it, and she has given me permission to share it with you as well.<\/p>\n<p>The Camberwell was the ship her grandfather retired from in 1938, and when we found this photo in the family home,\u00a0 we thought it would  make an ideal subject for an embroidered panel. Although the Camberwell  was a merchant vessel (a collier, in fact), the looming prow in the picture reminded us of the liner posters of the 1930s, so that was to be the inspiration for the panel.<\/p>\n<p>That idea in turn lead me to decide to use appliqu\u00e9 as the basic technique, embellished with embroidery. The flat blocks of colour used in the posters of the period would be most easily produced by appliqu\u00e9, and it is a technique that I&#8217;ve never used seriously before. I thought it would be fun to try.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1005\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/CamberwellSketch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1005\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/CamberwellSketch.jpg\" alt=\"Camberwell &quot;Sketch&quot;\" width=\"100\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camberwell &quot;Sketch&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So I began by scanning the photo and then tweaking it digitally to get a sketch. With Master Mariners on both sides of my family tree, the last thing I wanted was to get the rigging wrong!<\/p>\n<p>Once I knew what size the panel was to be (decided on the basis of where it was to hang) I could use a projector to project it at the appropriate size and create a basic pattern.<\/p>\n<p>Then I spent some time playing with colour schemes. We settled on something vaguely reminiscent of the the Art Deco period &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Camberwell Panel was a commission from my cousin. I documented the design and progress of the work for her while I was doing it, and she has given me permission to share it with you as well. The Camberwell was the ship her grandfather retired from in 1938, and when we found this photo&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/17\/the-camberwell-panel-another-long-project\/\">Continue Reading The Camberwell Panel \u2013 Another Long Project<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[20,156,66],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camberwell-panel","category-large-embroidery-projects","tag-applique","tag-camberwell-panel","tag-commissions","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/2564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}