{"id":14726,"date":"2023-09-26T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14726"},"modified":"2023-09-25T18:04:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T17:04:14","slug":"mounting-choices-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2023\/09\/26\/mounting-choices-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Mounting Choices Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There were some quandaries about mounting “Loading The Felucca”. Burgundy? Navy? Copper? Brown? I posted these pictures on various social media sites – each of which picked a different preference, which wasn’t helpful at all, but at least left me free to apply my own judgement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I chose the same navy blue velvet I used for the Amarna Royal Family. All the other fabrics had something going for them, but the navy blue brought out the colours and shapes more emphatically and truly – although I fear you will have to take my word for it, as my photograph doesn’t really bring out the blueness of the velvet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, in the course of the final mounting process, I discovered that the embroidery was no longer visibly signed. Curses!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I checked, and neither was Ankhsenspaaten. Curses again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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