{"id":12305,"date":"2020-02-04T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12305"},"modified":"2020-01-21T22:06:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T22:06:49","slug":"a-source-of-inspiration-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2020\/02\/04\/a-source-of-inspiration-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A Source of Inspiration (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Teacloth<\/a>
Teacloth by Grandmama<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

You might recognise some of the motifs on this teacloth..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grandmama worked it, we think during the War, and it involves some motifs I used for the Coat of Many Colours<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, even if I don’t use the exact motif, this teacloth, and a tablecloth (a sort of extended Director’s Cut!) are frequently the first places I look for inspiration when I am trying to put together a design for something stylised but floral. I suspect Grandmama would be laughing like a drain, as the family puts it, at the mere idea of being an inspiration all these years later!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Two<\/a>
Two leaves detail<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I’ve also learned an even greater respect for textile and embroidery historians, examining and cataloguing design and stitch use over the years. It’s all too easy to assume, complacently, that one’s first assessment of a stitch was correct, and I learnt when I looked at this photo that I was definitely wrong about the second of these two leaves. It might be Wheatear, but I suspect I will have to look at the back to be sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I’m far from convinced that Grandmama didn’t simply make up the other one as she went along. It’s a whipped or wrapped Something, but it looks like a more complex composite stitch to me…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Needlelace<\/a>
Needlelace variations<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Whipped Spiders Web Wheel as a needlelace stitch, a sort of floral motif of needlelace, and a pair of leaves in the top left that I thought for a moment should have been cut away. However, looking more closely (aren’t smartphone cameras really useful <\/i>on occasion!), I see that the edging isn’t buttonhole, but chain, so, no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that pair of leaves in the bottom left? They’ve been puzzling me for a while. The stitch looks a little as though it’s a whipped or wrapped stitch. Maybe stem stitch worked over foundation stitches?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You might recognise some of the motifs on this teacloth.. Grandmama worked it, we think during the War, and it involves some motifs I used for the Coat of Many Colours. In fact, even if I don’t use the exact motif, this teacloth, and a tablecloth (a sort of extended Director’s Cut!) are frequently the… Continue Reading A Source of Inspiration (1)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,31],"class_list":["post-12305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-grandmamas-embroidery","tag-needlelace","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12305","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=12305"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12324,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12305\/revisions\/12324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}