{"id":2354,"date":"2011-01-14T09:07:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T09:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2010-12-13T17:27:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T17:27:24","slug":"christus-natus-est-%e2%80%93-second-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/14\/christus-natus-est-%e2%80%93-second-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Christus Natus Est \u2013 Second Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christus Natus Est on Calico<\/p><\/div>\n

The first step is to simplify the design, so that it becomes an embroidery design rather than a painting. I’ve transferred the simplified design using fabric crayons, and used a fabric pen to outline the sections. The design is about three inches by eight, which seems very large now I look at it, but I felt that if I tried to work it too small I risked multiplying the difficulties already inherent in learning a new technique.<\/p>\n

The additional lines are contours for the gold threads, which I am going to couch down following the technique described in All that Glitters<\/em>, by Alison Cole.<\/p>\n

Thanks to some help and advice from Golden Hinde<\/a> I’ve got the right sort of gold thread – an entire spool of it! I just hope one spool is enough…<\/p>\n

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Pearsalls Silk and Gold Jap For Christus Natus Est<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve decided to use Pearsall’s Filoselle Silk<\/a>. As I am not sure how much of the gold will be covered by silk, I’ve only purchased one skein of each colour.<\/p>\n

Regular readers will have gathered by now that there is a lot of guesswork involved in my embroidery!\u00a0 I suspect that changes between dyelots won’t matter too much when I am after an impression of rich and changeable colour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first step is to simplify the design, so that it becomes an embroidery design rather than a painting. I’ve transferred the simplified design using fabric crayons, and used a fabric pen to outline the sections. The design is about three inches by eight, which seems very large now I look at it, but I… Continue Reading Christus Natus Est \u2013 Second Stage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[56,25,158,17,59],"class_list":["post-2354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goldwork","tag-christus-natus-est","tag-experiments","tag-goldwork","tag-new-techniques","tag-or-nue","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354","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=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions\/2483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}