{"id":399,"date":"2010-03-05T09:10:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T08:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=399"},"modified":"2010-05-10T12:54:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T11:54:40","slug":"stitching-the-persian-fantasy-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/05\/stitching-the-persian-fantasy-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Stitching The Persian Fantasy – Three"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Waterfall<\/a>

The Waterfall from the crag<\/p><\/div>\n

I tried very hard to get a photo that does\u00a0 justice to the waterfall here, because it is another example of what I mentioned when I was discussing the gazelle, but I’ve not succeeded very well, I’m afraid.<\/p>\n

The interesting point about the waterfall is that it looks like a trivial piece of design – just a few lines – and yet when I came to embroider it, I realised that it would be spoilt if I added “watery” effects with sparkling thread or metallics. I ended up stitching it very simply in stem stitch, using three colours of pearl cotton.<\/p>\n

In real life (I wish I were better at photography!) this looks more like a waterfall than a few simple lines have any right to. I’ve looked at this panel over breakfast for ten years now, and I still can’t work out quite how the designer managed to do it!<\/p>\n

\"Tree<\/a>

Tree On A Crag<\/p><\/div>\n

This tree is a different matter. It doesn’t look much like a real tree, and it isn’t intended to. It is a purely decorative, “tree-ish” element of the design.<\/p>\n

I’m coming to realise that the success of these panels rests partly on this balancing act, in which some of the elements look more realistic than others.<\/p>\n

Something for us all to try, perhaps!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I tried very hard to get a photo that does\u00a0 justice to the waterfall here, because it is another example of what I mentioned when I was discussing the gazelle, but I’ve not succeeded very well, I’m afraid. The interesting point about the waterfall is that it looks like a trivial piece of design –… Continue Reading Stitching The Persian Fantasy – Three<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13,8],"tags":[24,7,157],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-large-embroidery-projects","category-persian-fantasy","tag-design-elements","tag-needlewoman-magazine","tag-persian-fantasy","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","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=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}