{"id":15058,"date":"2024-03-26T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15058"},"modified":"2024-02-19T17:01:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:01:10","slug":"return-to-william-just-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2024\/03\/26\/return-to-william-just-because\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to William, just because!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I thought people might enjoy some shots of William from different angles and in different lighting, both of which affect the gold and silk very strongly.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I don’t have much to say for myself, just – Enjoy (with a little editorial, as it were)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had intended to fill in the end of the gatehouse tunnel with underside couching, but decided in the end it would make a lot less sense of the picture.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I was greatly relieved that the various oddities around the edges seem not to be drawling attention to themselves!<\/p>\n\n\n

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The lion rampant isn’t completely successful in terms of the details of stitch direction, I think, but I couldn’t see a better way to do it, and since when I put a picture on social media, someone was able to type their guess of the blazon (heraldic description) into a search engine and have “William Marshall, first Earl of Pembroke” pop up immediately, I think I’m just going to let well alone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The points of light are couching stitches on the trellis couching. The flash doesn’t show up the stems in the border as well, but it does wonderful things for the stitch direction on the stonework and the dapples on the horse (Mars, we called him in the end, didn’t we?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought people might enjoy some shots of William from different angles and in different lighting, both of which affect the gold and silk very strongly. I don’t have much to say for myself, just – Enjoy (with a little editorial, as it were)! I had intended to fill in the end of the gatehouse… Continue Reading Return to William, just because!<\/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":[249,250],"class_list":["post-15058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-opus-anglicanum","tag-william-marshall","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15058","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=15058"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15090,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15058\/revisions\/15090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}