{"id":10866,"date":"2018-02-06T09:03:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T09:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10866"},"modified":"2018-01-04T16:32:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T16:32:16","slug":"trialling-a-finishing-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/06\/trialling-a-finishing-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"Trialling a finishing technique"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Attaching<\/a>

Attaching The Geese<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve not been finishing any of the Amarna pieces for presentation, because once mounted and framed, they take up much more space, and also because I’m not sure which pieces are going where. However, the needlefelted pieces are not going to form part of the main panels, and I rather think it may take more than one attempt to get them just right. I’ve decided I want to present them rather as pieces of fresco are presented in museums, on a background which is similar in colour to the main colour, but not close enough to mislead.<\/p>\n

So the first thing to do was to find a suitably-sized artist’s canvas, and cover it with some padding and then a nice woollen fabric which is a warm yellow, slightly darker than the felt background. Then I cut around the Amarna Geese to make a rough, uneven shape. I should probably have cut off a head or something so that the fresco would look suitably fragmentary, but I simply couldn’t bring myself to do that!<\/p>\n

\"Mounted<\/a>

Mounted And Signed Too<\/p><\/div>\n

I used a fine woollen thread to attach the felt to the background fabric, as far as possible remaining within the thickness of the felt. That was quite tricky, and I wonder whether there might be an easier way. I’m glad I didn’t start with the two princesses!<\/p>\n

My Morse Code signature is in double straight stitches, following an edge. And there’s a bit of a corner left open there. I might do an extra goose head and add it in as a separate fragment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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