{"id":16026,"date":"2025-09-09T09:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=16026"},"modified":"2025-09-07T11:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:15:06","slug":"aethelflaeds-dress-going-round-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2025\/09\/09\/aethelflaeds-dress-going-round-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Aethelflaed’s Dress – going round again!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Earlier<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Just so we know where we stand…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before I went through the reboot, I’d the back panel stitched and some dark lines in place – shadows and stitch lines. It’s not right at all. It looks unthought-through, and the drapery isn’t draping in a way that makes sense even in a medieval fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So in the end I took it all out, ornate border and all, and started again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve broadened the decorative border to have two navy lines and three gold, and given it a darker background.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Closeup<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Then I turned one of my resource photos into greyscale, printed it out and stared at it. I’ve also stretched out the colours a bit to emphasize the lights and the darks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So now, I want to translate what I’ve seen to the slightly different cut of Aethelflaed’s dress, and the slightly different style of Opus. That may be a bit tricky.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Close<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

First thing to do was to remove all the unhelpful darks already in place. I think I just need to start all over again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here is the start of starting all over again. Light at the front, quite broad, and some new highlights. I may have to think a bit more about the border, but I believe that will be easier to do as the rest of the dress comes together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also need to get the sleeves in. There’ll be a contrast here, the sleeves of a contrasting shift or under-dress, and that will help the image to make sense from a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just so we know where we stand… Before I went through the reboot, I’d the back panel stitched and some dark lines in place – shadows and stitch lines. It’s not right at all. It looks unthought-through, and the drapery isn’t draping in a way that makes sense even in a medieval fashion. So in… Continue Reading Aethelflaed’s Dress – going round again!<\/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":[295,24,272,284,249],"class_list":["post-16026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aethelflaed","tag-design-elements","tag-designing","tag-medieval-movers-and-shakers","tag-opus-anglicanum","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16026","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=16026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16028,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16026\/revisions\/16028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}