{"id":10309,"date":"2017-02-28T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10309"},"modified":"2017-01-15T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T15:00:55","slug":"shadow-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/28\/shadow-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow Play"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Printed<\/a>

Printed on gauze<\/p><\/div>\n

I decided, as I stared at the printing of this blocky pattern onto gauze, that I wanted to use the transparency of the gauze as part of the finished effect.<\/p>\n

I don’t have a destination in mind for this piece which will give me a theme, so I decided that, in order to highlight that one quality, I would use a single thread (as it happened, a variegated silk), and design a fragment that would allow me to experiment with the effect of stitch cover and openness.<\/p>\n

\"Sketching\"<\/a>

Sketching<\/p><\/div>\n

I leafed through books about pattern, saw nothing that gave me the combination I wanted, and then evolved the fragmentary organic sketch on the far left to give me the balance of line and form I was looking for. Incidentally, this is quite possibly the swiftest and shortest progression of any sketched design I’ve ever come up with!<\/p>\n

\"Finished<\/a>

Finished Fragment<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s astonishingly difficult to trace a design onto a fabric which is essentially invisible, and still harder, I might add, to follow the lines when you have finally put them there!<\/p>\n

I used Hungarian Braided Chain Stitch for the stem, satin stitch for the solid side of the leaf, and Jacobean trellis for the flower-head. Clearly that gives me a solid coverage, and a firm line; I was hoping that the Jacobean trellis might offer a sort of half-shade.<\/p>\n

\"Shadow<\/a>

Shadow Play<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

A qualified success, I’d say. The printed pattern doesn’t create a shadow, and the Jacobean trellis shadow isn’t a sort of half-depth.<\/p>\n

But, my goodness, the shadow of the stem and the leaf work exactly as I hoped! The gauze itself almost disappears, leaving the printed pattern floating above the surface, and the leaf and flower thrown forward by their shadows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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