{"id":10291,"date":"2017-02-21T09:03:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T09:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10291"},"modified":"2017-01-09T16:46:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T16:46:01","slug":"the-head-of-nefertiti-embellished-with-silk-and-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/21\/the-head-of-nefertiti-embellished-with-silk-and-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"The Head of Nefertiti, Embellished with Silk and Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Screenprint of the Head of Nefertiti<\/p><\/div>\n

This is much the best print I’ve managed of Nefertiti, pressure, speed and amount of ink all working nicely, and very few really dark sections. What I want to do now is to highlight the coloured elements of the crown she wears – unique to her, apparently, no-one else in ancient Egypt has ever been depicted wearing it. I’ve got some gorgeous silk threads from Mulberry Silks<\/a> which should do the job perfectly, but first they need a skeleton of gold. I had a lovely rummage in among the assorted wonders I’ve received from Thistle Threads<\/a> (they have their own special box, of course), and after staring critically at the linen fabric, picked out the Special Tambour, and made a start.<\/p>\n

My idea is to create a framework of Ladder Stitch, and then add colour – as in the Tudor Rose<\/a> project – using silk threads. Long term readers may recall that during the Tudor and Stuart Goldwork Masterclass<\/a>, I had some trouble with Ladder stitch, so although I was fairly sure the idea would work, I sat down with some trepidation.<\/p>\n

To be very pleasantly surprised. Something has happened in the intervening few years, and my ladder stitch wasn’t as trying as I expected, and moved fairly swiftly, too. I may yet decide to redo the stitches, because I re-tightened the fabric in the frame about halfway across, but that will depend upon how much better the second section looks when I have done it.<\/p>\n

That’s a good start to a new project, isn’t it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is much the best print I’ve managed of Nefertiti, pressure, speed and amount of ink all working nicely, and very few really dark sections. What I want to do now is to highlight the coloured elements of the crown she wears – unique to her, apparently, no-one else in ancient Egypt has ever been… Continue Reading The Head of Nefertiti, Embellished with Silk and Gold<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[184,26,16],"class_list":["post-10291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams-of-amarna","tag-head-of-nefertiti","tag-silk-thread","tag-thistle-threads","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291","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=10291"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10301,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291\/revisions\/10301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}