{"id":10350,"date":"2017-04-18T09:09:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T08:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10350"},"modified":"2017-04-02T19:07:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T18:07:35","slug":"more-progress-on-the-head-of-nefertiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/18\/more-progress-on-the-head-of-nefertiti\/","title":{"rendered":"More progress on The Head of Nefertiti"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The polychrome band is finished<\/p><\/div>\n

Once I had finished the polychrome bands, I sat back and looked at them. Using the darker shades of the colours in the darker part of the print helps to tie it all together and wrap the bands around the headdress.<\/p>\n

I had a moment or two of concern, then decided that I would not, after all, ruin everything if I continued to add the other elements of the design that I had planned. There is always a moment or two of fear, especially when an early section has gone well!<\/p>\n

\"Trialling<\/a>

Trialling Leather<\/p><\/div>\n

The original bust shows something that looks like a browband of gold, fairly plain and flat. I fished out a piece of gold kid, but although the photograph doesn’t show it very well, the kid is the wrong colour (too pale, and not yellow enough) for the gold thread, so I have to think of something else.<\/p>\n

*Thinks hard*.<\/p>\n

\"Necklace<\/a>

Necklace Trial<\/p><\/div>\n

Meanwhile, I thought I would experiment with the necklace, or collar. My thought was that, rather than do the whole thing, I would do a small section of it, to make sure that I maintain the feeling of an embroidery, and not a portrait of a portrait.<\/p>\n

What I have done here is to make radiating stitches of the gold thread, and then use the same whipped filling stitch I used on the polychrome bands, but alternating them so there is a hint of a gold net underlying the collar.<\/p>\n

I like this, but maybe I do need to do an entire collar’s worth.<\/p>\n

*Thinks hard*. Again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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