{"id":3830,"date":"2011-07-22T09:02:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T08:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2011-07-21T18:43:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T17:43:32","slug":"more-on-christus-natus-est","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/22\/more-on-christus-natus-est\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Christus Natus Est"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Progress on Christus Natus Est<\/p><\/div>\n

Recently I was sent a link to a page discussing Russian embroidered icons. It seems that for all we think of icons as purely painted pieces, embroidered icons<\/a> aren’t new – it is simply that their relative fragility and the length of time it takes to create one have made them very much rarer.<\/p>\n

As I can testify. There have been many hours already that have gone into this piece, and I’m not sure that the progress made is really all that clear. Still, the spiral is nearly touching the side (I’m going to cover all the black lines, because I’m not entirely sure how this will be mounted or framed), and in fact it won’t be long before I have to consider how the non-spiral lines will flow. If you go back and look at the design as I showed it in this earlier post<\/a>, you will see there is an extra black line flowing from St. Joseph’s head towards the top left corner, and another in the bottom right. These lines are to change the direction of the lines of the gold in order to bring more life into the design, but now I have done some of the work I wonder whether the lines are in the right place.<\/p>\n

There is also the section of the Virgin’s cape running up over her head where I have for now followed the line as drawn, but wonder whether I should perhaps in this one instance follow the line of the gold to maintain the clarity of the abstract shape. If I do that, it will provide some justification for using a line along the back of St Joseph’s head and cloak as one of the new lines for the gold.<\/p>\n

In other words, more thinking needed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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