{"id":16444,"date":"2026-03-31T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=16444"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:15:47","slug":"trellis-couching-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/31\/trellis-couching-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Trellis Couching Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AnglesVary_Watermarked.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AnglesVary_Watermarked-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"Particularly wonky bit of trellis couching, with lines radiating from the inner corner\" class=\"wp-image-16434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AnglesVary_Watermarked-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AnglesVary_Watermarked-768x651.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AnglesVary_Watermarked.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I am going to have to develop more careful and crafty ways to keep my trellis couching even. I&#8217;ve enhanced the contrast in the picture at left so you can see that there&#8217;s a section where I had to insert extra couching lines, which ended up radiating from the inner corner of the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will barely show by the time the embellishment motifs have been added in, and it at least makes certain that the lower layer &#8211; the &#8220;colouring in&#8221; layer &#8211; is kept well under control. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/StartedWell_Watermarked.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/StartedWell_Watermarked-300x288.jpg\" alt=\"Fairly even in the bottom left corner where I started..\" class=\"wp-image-16437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/StartedWell_Watermarked-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/StartedWell_Watermarked-768x737.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/StartedWell_Watermarked.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>All that being said, if you look at the bottom left corner, I where I started the trellis, it&#8217;s much more even, although still wonky in places!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Never mind, it&#8217;s a background for something else &#8211; a Something Else I have yet to design, alas! &#8211; and as such I am happy that it produces that engaging &#8220;quilted&#8221; texture and allows me to move on to the next stage. You will see below the completed trellis couching. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I have to turn the tangle of roses, bees, skeps, barrels, crosses and numismatic motifs whirling in my head into something that looks pleasing within the border. Wish me luck!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TrellisDoneA_Watermarked.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"828\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TrellisDoneA_Watermarked.jpg\" alt=\"All Trellis Couching complete!\" class=\"wp-image-16435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TrellisDoneA_Watermarked.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TrellisDoneA_Watermarked-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TrellisDoneA_Watermarked-768x795.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to have to develop more careful and crafty ways to keep my trellis couching even. I&#8217;ve enhanced the contrast in the picture at left so you can see that there&#8217;s a section where I had to insert extra couching lines, which ended up radiating from the inner corner of the border. It&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/31\/trellis-couching-complete\/\">Continue Reading Trellis Couching Complete<\/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":[295,284,249,26],"class_list":["post-16444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aethelflaed","tag-medieval-movers-and-shakers","tag-opus-anglicanum","tag-silk-thread","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16444","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=16444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16448,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16444\/revisions\/16448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}