{"id":5855,"date":"2012-08-07T09:01:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T08:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5855"},"modified":"2013-02-12T18:11:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:11:21","slug":"the-map-of-amarna-is-finished-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/07\/the-map-of-amarna-is-finished-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"The Map of Amarna is Finished – Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing my look back over the Map of Amarna<\/a> now I’ve finished it…<\/p>\n

\"Detail<\/a>

Detail Of Villages And Cultivation<\/p><\/div>\n

Regular readers will recall that I spent a long time thinking about the stitch I intended to use for the cultivation<\/a>, and not just that, but selecting the appropriate thread or threads<\/a> to use for it. In the end I chose t\u00eate de boeuf stitch<\/a> for the cultivation (upside down in relation to the diagram on the page I’ve linked to, making it look more plant-like) , and although you can’t see it in this photo (zoom in on the main photo on the first post on the completed map<\/a>\u00a0 instead), I used four different fine silk threads\u00a0 to create changes of colour and effect, reminiscent of different crops.<\/p>\n

For the modern villages, I used a variegated silk thread, which I used for the text relating to those villages as well, and chose Sorbello stitch<\/a>, stitched very small, and very regularly spaced. It’s unlikely in the extreme that any rural village, anywhere in the world, would be laid out in a grid pattern, but again the intention is to create a marked textural contrast between the cultivation and the settlement.<\/p>\n

\"Detail<\/a>

Detail Of Scale<\/p><\/div>\n

Working the scale for the map gave me some trouble. For the text, again I used split stitch<\/a>, as I had on the second level title, and eventually I chose to use an interlaced stitch<\/a> for the dark sections of the scale.<\/p>\n

This stitch echoes the reverse herringbone stitch<\/a> I used for the contour lines. I know that most of the people who see this when I eventually finish it won’t appreciate that sort of detail, but there will be some who will!<\/p>\n

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\"Map<\/a>

Map With Edges<\/p><\/div>\n

This was the point at which I laid out my finished map on the floor with the other fabrics which I intend to use for the borders, and gave myself a serious fright.<\/p>\n

Remember these diagrams in my post in August 2010<\/a>? These borders are where the “patches”, like the Felucca <\/a>and the Faience Hippopotamus<\/a>, will go. Of course this is very approximate – I don’t intend to cut into these fabrics until I’m much more sure of how I’m going to put the pieces together than I am at present – but these borders are about the right proportions, and as it stands they aren’t going to leave much space for the patches.<\/p>\n

I may have to edit my patches and fragments very much more ruthlessly than I had intended.<\/p>\n

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Continuing my look back over the Map of Amarna now I’ve finished it… Regular readers will recall that I spent a long time thinking about the stitch I intended to use for the cultivation, and not just that, but selecting the appropriate thread or threads to use for it. In the end I chose t\u00eate… Continue Reading The Map of Amarna is Finished – Part Two<\/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],"tags":[155,55],"class_list":["post-5855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams-of-amarna","tag-dreams-of-amarna","tag-the-map-of-amarna","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855","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=5855"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5888,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions\/5888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}