{"id":10938,"date":"2018-10-30T09:02:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10938"},"modified":"2018-09-19T21:10:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T20:10:56","slug":"mounting-the-two-amarna-princesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/30\/mounting-the-two-amarna-princesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Mounting the Two Amarna Princesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10915\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AttachingPiecesInTheThickness.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10915\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10915\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AttachingPiecesInTheThickness-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"Attaching Piece In The Thickness\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AttachingPiecesInTheThickness-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AttachingPiecesInTheThickness-768x627.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AttachingPiecesInTheThickness.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attaching Piece In The Thickness<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I felt that the finishing technique for the Amarna Geese really worked, creating just the right impression of a fragment of fresco, so, after thinking it over a little more, I tackled the Princesses.<\/p>\n<p>The depth of layering of the felts made it much easier to attach to the padded mount, although if I could only have found my curved needles, it might have been yet easier.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10914\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/PrincessesMountedAndSigned.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10914\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10914\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/PrincessesMountedAndSigned-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"Princesses Mounted And Signed\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/PrincessesMountedAndSigned-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/PrincessesMountedAndSigned-768x599.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/PrincessesMountedAndSigned.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Princesses Mounted And Signed<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Again, I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to chop the princesses into bits. If I had thought of the display method to begin with, and created the piece with that in mind, I might have been able to do so, but as it is &#8211; they are so exquisite, I simply couldn&#8217;t\u00a0do it!<\/p>\n<p>Finally mounted, with the separate bits on the corners. They look just the way I hoped they would!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I felt that the finishing technique for the Amarna Geese really worked, creating just the right impression of a fragment of fresco, so, after thinking it over a little more, I tackled the Princesses. The depth of layering of the felts made it much easier to attach to the padded mount, although if I could&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/30\/mounting-the-two-amarna-princesses\/\">Continue Reading Mounting the Two Amarna Princesses<\/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":[155,187,190],"class_list":["post-10938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams-of-amarna","tag-dreams-of-amarna","tag-felting","tag-two-amarna-princesses","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938","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=10938"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10942,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938\/revisions\/10942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}