{"id":13803,"date":"2022-03-15T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13803"},"modified":"2022-03-07T21:52:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T21:52:51","slug":"manawatu-gorge-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2022\/03\/15\/manawatu-gorge-experiments\/","title":{"rendered":"Manawatu Gorge Experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ManawatuGorge.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ManawatuGorge-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ManawatuGorge-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ManawatuGorge-1024x853.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ManawatuGorge.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As you see, this sketch is from a long time ago. It was probably done in about ten minutes, in a pause on the road out of Palmerston North.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found it a little while ago, and thought it would be interesting to see whether I could produce something pleasing in stitched form, using this as the basis. In particular, since it&#8217;s so long ago, and I couldn&#8217;t for the life of me find any other source material, this is all I have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Add-Watermark_2022_03_07_09_20_24-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Add-Watermark_2022_03_07_09_20_24-3-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Add-Watermark_2022_03_07_09_20_24-3-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Add-Watermark_2022_03_07_09_20_24-3-768x781.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Add-Watermark_2022_03_07_09_20_24-3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>My first idea was to play with layered laces and gauzes, purples and blues because we were there in winter, and there was a lot of snow, bright blue skies and wonderful coloured shadows. There were some limitations in the laces and gauzes I could get hold of, so some of the adventure will be in making this work!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Add-Watermark_2022_03_07_09_20_24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Add-Watermark_2022_03_07_09_20_24-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Add-Watermark_2022_03_07_09_20_24-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Add-Watermark_2022_03_07_09_20_24-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I haven&#8217;t drawn anything on the fabric, and I am cutting my laces and gauzes more or less freehand against the sketch. Compared with the painstaking stitching on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/tag\/william-marshall\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/tag\/william-marshall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">William Marshall<\/a>, the pieces are almost tacked into place, and there isn&#8217;t at all the same sense of quiet productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m also contemplating a canvaswork, and more abstract, version of Manawatu Gorge, but just while I was writing this post, I came up with an idea for another layered gauze version. So I have more experiments to make!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In other news, Episode 76 of Slow TV Stitchery is now live: In which the Hunting Cat piece is mounted, and we discuss feature creep, tapestries as woven wallpaper with acoustic properties, and the depiction of layers of recollection.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SlowTVStitchery - Episode76\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BNX4c1UMRng?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you see, this sketch is from a long time ago. It was probably done in about ten minutes, in a pause on the road out of Palmerston North. 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