{"id":2276,"date":"2011-01-04T09:06:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T09:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2276"},"modified":"2012-08-14T15:14:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T14:14:36","slug":"some-work-on-the-map-of-amarna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/04\/some-work-on-the-map-of-amarna\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Work On The Map of Amarna"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Contour<\/a>

Contour Lines on the Map of Amarna<\/p><\/div>\n

Fortunately for me, I’d already had plenty of ideas for working the Map of Amarna<\/a> for the first of the background panels<\/a>, and in fact, as soon as I decided to include it there was one section about which I was absolutely certain – the contour lines. I’ve worked them in Reverse Herringbone Stitch<\/a>. The fabric between the lines is thus slightly raised – padded by the threads behind it. I got this far on the map quite some time ago and was very pleased with myself when it turned out Just As I Hoped.<\/p>\n

\"Compass<\/a>

Compass Rose on the Amarna Map<\/p><\/div>\n

Then I moved on to another section and found myself struggling. In the drawn map, the compass rose is indicated by three lines. When I tried that, it looked clunky and rather sad. So I returned to my stitch dictionaries, and looked for line stitches. Cable Chain Stitch<\/a> was an obvious choice, as it has been a favourite of mine for years, and the outer ring is worked in Closed Feather Stitch<\/a>. I used two Caron Collection threads in the same colourway here – a single strand of the heavy pearl cotton type which has three strands (Watercolours, I think it is called),\u00a0 and the much finer one, which I think is Wildflowers. It is interesting to watch the colour changes\u00a0 as they appear very different and have different emphases in the different threads.<\/p>\n

I may yet decide to run a “shadow” to one side or the other of the arrow, using a simple stitch such as stem stitch<\/a>, to throw the satin stitch<\/a> into stronger relief, but for the moment I am happy that the flatter outer ring creates the illusion of a raised compass rose, while still being clearly something stitched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fortunately for me, I’d already had plenty of ideas for working the Map of Amarna for the first of the background panels, and in fact, as soon as I decided to include it there was one section about which I was absolutely certain – the contour lines. I’ve worked them in Reverse Herringbone Stitch. The… Continue Reading Some Work On The Map of Amarna<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[155,70,55],"class_list":["post-2276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams-of-amarna","category-large-embroidery-projects","tag-dreams-of-amarna","tag-perseverance","tag-the-map-of-amarna","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276","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=2276"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions\/2389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}