{"id":748,"date":"2010-04-27T09:10:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T08:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=748"},"modified":"2010-04-25T21:29:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T20:29:01","slug":"floral-glove-needlecase-course-starting-the-goldwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/27\/floral-glove-needlecase-course-starting-the-goldwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Floral Glove Needlecase Course &#8211; Starting the Goldwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_749\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RoseOutlined.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-749\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-749 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RoseOutlined-159x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Rose Outlined\" width=\"159\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RoseOutlined-159x300.jpg 159w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RoseOutlined.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rose Outlined<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The embroidery on the Floral Glove Needlecase is based around the tabbed cuffs of gloves which were often presented as gifts during the Elizabethan era. We&#8217;re only doing one side of one cuff, of course, but the additional historical material we get each month, with high-resolution pictures of some of the original gloves which remain in existence, give us a very fair idea of what <a title=\"Thistle Threads\" href=\"http:\/\/thistle-threads.com\/index.html\">Thistle Threads<\/a> were aiming for!<\/p>\n<p>There are several useful diagrams in the instructions showing where to start and end the gold thread, which is couched down with silk. Furthermore &#8211; brave lady indeed! &#8211; Tricia has even provided us with a view of the back of the embroidery. <a title=\"How It All Began\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/06\/how-it-all-began\/\">Miss Hunter<\/a> would have looked at the back to check that it met her high standards &#8211; as students we are studying that photograph to try to garner more clues to how the work fits together. It gives a better idea of stitch lengths, for instance, because the eye isn&#8217;t dazzled by the goldwork and can study the couching.<\/p>\n<p>It is very detailed, rather tiring work, so even with a good light (by the way &#8211; bright sunlight is not, in this context, a good light &#8211; it bounces off the gold thread and the magnifier and tires the eyes even more quickly) and a magnifier, I can&#8217;t do much at once. What you see here is two or three sessions&#8217; work.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleased, though. There are several new techniques and materials still to try in this month&#8217;s session, and I think I am learning a great deal &#8211; not least, working at this scale turns out to be less hair-raising than I feared!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The embroidery on the Floral Glove Needlecase is based around the tabbed cuffs of gloves which were often presented as gifts during the Elizabethan era. We&#8217;re only doing one side of one cuff, of course, but the additional historical material we get each month, with high-resolution pictures of some of the original gloves which remain&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/27\/floral-glove-needlecase-course-starting-the-goldwork\/\">Continue Reading Floral Glove Needlecase Course &#8211; Starting the Goldwork<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5,158,29,15,26,16],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floral-glove-needlecase","tag-floral-glove-course","tag-goldwork","tag-miss-hunter","tag-online-university","tag-silk-thread","tag-thistle-threads","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","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=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}