{"id":12353,"date":"2020-04-14T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12353"},"modified":"2020-08-03T21:24:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T20:24:03","slug":"more-progress-on-the-faience-necklace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/14\/more-progress-on-the-faience-necklace\/","title":{"rendered":"More progress on the Faience Necklace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is another episode of SlowTV Stitchery up – Episode Three<\/a>. I’ve also done two shorts, one introducing the Dreams of Amarna project<\/a> as a whole, and one, for the Amarna Family Group<\/a> in particular. Please ask me any questions you like, either here in the comments, or by email, and I will try to answer them in one of the later episodes. It might take a while, though, because people have been stacking up questions like cordwood!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, back to the Faience Necklace, which I’ve neglected… The first elements I decided to do were among the simplest – the three palm leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Palm<\/a>
Palm Leaf Stage One<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

First layer, as I said, is plain satin stitch in flat silk. Satin stitch makes me nervous, but flat silk spreads and blends together, which makes it about as easy as it can be for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Palm<\/a>
Palm Leaf Stage Two<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The next stage was to hand-twist a two ply perl\u00e9 -type thread to stitch the veins, using straight stitches. In this case, I used two of the strands of filaments for each ply, and I tried not to over-twist the final assembly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That made for a lovely thread, with a bit of body and “lift”. A pleasure to use!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Cornflowers\"<\/a>
Cornflowers – first stage<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

If I have correctly interpreted the description that Mary Chubb typed out on that first afternoon, when she came back from her epiphany in the cellar, this shape was described as a cornflower, so I went with my brightest blue, and the middle greyish-green shade for the calyx.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will notice that the stitching on the two sections is at right angles one to the other. I realise that the stitching on the “petals” is not going in the obvious correct direction, but wait – there’s more…!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Cornflowers<\/a>
Cornflowers – Second Stage<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Quite a lot more, in fact. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, trellis couching on the calyx, using a fine 2-ply thread twisted using a half-strand of flat silk for each ply, and twisted as tightly as I could manage without snarls or tangles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, using the bright blue, I twisted another 2-ply thread, this time using three strands for each ply, and again, trying not to over-twist. Then I could use it to work some long bullion knots, creating the slightly fluffy effect of an opening flower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think this is going well so far!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is another episode of SlowTV Stitchery up – Episode Three. I’ve also done two shorts, one introducing the Dreams of Amarna project as a whole, and one, for the Amarna Family Group in particular. Please ask me any questions you like, either here in the comments, or by email, and I will try to… Continue Reading More progress on the Faience Necklace<\/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":[155,162,26,222],"class_list":["post-12353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams-of-amarna","tag-dreams-of-amarna","tag-faience-necklace","tag-silk-thread","tag-slowtvstitchery","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353","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=12353"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12661,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353\/revisions\/12661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}