{"id":13697,"date":"2022-01-18T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13697"},"modified":"2022-01-10T18:49:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:49:38","slug":"beginning-to-assemble-the-amarna-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2022\/01\/18\/beginning-to-assemble-the-amarna-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning to assemble the Amarna pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It occurred to me recently that if I were to find somewhere to exhibit the Dreams of Amarna<\/a>, I might find myself with a lot of assembly to do, rather more rapidly than is entirely comfortable. Pieces mounted for display take up a lot more space than most of us can easily spare, so I’ve been extremely reluctant to start the mounting process – until terrorised by the idea of morning, noon, and night, squinting over some hard-to-light and extremely delicate fragment!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m starting with the felt pieces, which aren’t going to be huge, and for which I have a scheme already in my head, and at least some of the materials to hand. Unfortunately my tools have been a bit fractious…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After a day of wrestling with my equipment, and sourcing more staples, which turned out to be what The Australian would term “non-trivial” (would you believe, one of the shops I went to sells staple guns, but not the staples?!), I have finally reached the pleasing situation of having three supports ready to have their finished pieces mounted on them. My ears rang from the ker-KLUNK<\/em> of the staple gun, and my hand ached, but it is a very satisfying sight, all the same!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a few days of recovery, I went on to get started on the attachment of one of the pieces, and given the times in which we still live, I’m going to record my witterings as I go. So, herewith the return of Slow TV Stitchery, continuing the sequence from last year with Episode 74.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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