{"id":12068,"date":"2019-10-01T09:02:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T08:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12068"},"modified":"2019-09-28T21:05:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T20:05:06","slug":"the-faience-necklace-still-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/01\/the-faience-necklace-still-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Faience Necklace – still thinking…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Faience Necklace \n(Copyright The Egypt Exploration Society)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

After her discovery of the piece of tile that started it all<\/a>, the first find that Mary Chubb describes is a faience necklace, discovered by the team then in Egypt, and written up in the Director’s Report which she has to disentangle and re-type legibly (remember, in the 1920s, typing wasn’t a skill that everyone had had to develop). It sounds completely enchanting, and yet I’m struggling to bring it to life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact I last wrote about it<\/a> in 2015, and I’m still wrestling with ways to represent it! I’ve already abandoned any idea of working a portrait of it (as it were). As you can see from the black and white photo, it’s crammed with faience beads, and it’s hard to imagine making a good stitchable design of it. So I’ve cut out some watercoloured beads, and pushed them around, taking photos as I go. Back to primary school!<\/p>\n\n\n\n