{"id":48,"date":"2010-04-06T10:14:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T09:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=48"},"modified":"2010-05-10T12:53:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T11:53:31","slug":"the-persian-fantasy-extending-the-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/06\/the-persian-fantasy-extending-the-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"The Persian Fantasy – extending the idea"},"content":{"rendered":"
\""Thou"<\/a>

"Thou" completed around 2000, inspired by the Persian Fantasy<\/p><\/div>\n

The Persian Fantasy Screen was such fun that I wanted to do some more embroidery in the same style. First of all, it was clear from the original colours that the Prince on Panel One was the same on Panel Four, so I had to create\u00a0 a companion for him, the \u201cThou\u201d of the text:<\/p>\n

A loaf of bread, a flask of wine,<\/p>\n

And thou beside me<\/p>\n

Singing in the wilderness<\/p>\n

And wilderness were paradise enow<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I had some help from my mother<\/a> on this one.. We used the illustrations in her\u00a0 copy of the Rubaiyat <\/em>to help us with the lady’s costume and to find a different sort of tree for her to sit under. The pictures were from ancient Persian silk paintings, so I hoped that our prince and his partner would recognise one another. I used the same technique for the tree \u2013 couched chenille, boucle and loop yarns, and simple shapes for the leaves, although in this case the leaves also used a variegated yarn. I also used a similar idea for the lady’s outfit as I had for the prince, choosing an openwork filling stitch (in this case, Cloud Filling Stitch<\/a>) for the tunic, and something more solid for the headcovering.<\/p>\n

\"Her<\/a>

Her Picnic<\/p><\/div>\n

Again, the dishes for the picnic included lustreware, this time a bowl full of bread. This time the lustreware was worked in overdyed stranded cotton. There was also a flask using similar colours to the prince\u2019s lustreware, but worked this time in variegated cottons. The little table (or rug – I never quite decided what it was!) that the picnic is placed on was edged with a complicated couched braid, using an even more complicated textural thread. I can’t for the life of me recall where I bought it, but I do recall that the only possible way to use it was by couching it!<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Lady's Head<\/p><\/div>\n

A loose rayon, worked in a sort of halfway stitch between Bokhara couching<\/a> and Romanian couching<\/a>, created the lady\u2019s glowing veil, and her headband was worked in braid stitch<\/a> to give a suitable ornate and luxurious appearance.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure that I would use these stitches or threads now. I remember the untwisted rayon was difficult to stitch, very flyaway and prone to catching on my hoop, my fingers, my nails (even though I keep them short) and anything else within range. It looks lovely now it’s done, of course. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Persian Fantasy Screen was such fun that I wanted to do some more embroidery in the same style. First of all, it was clear from the original colours that the Prince on Panel One was the same on Panel Four, so I had to create\u00a0 a companion for him, the \u201cThou\u201d of the text:… Continue Reading The Persian Fantasy – extending the idea<\/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":[18,157],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-large-embroidery-projects","category-persian-fantasy","tag-overdyed-threads","tag-persian-fantasy","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","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=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}