{"id":7945,"date":"2014-02-11T09:01:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T09:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7945"},"modified":"2016-12-21T21:04:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T21:04:35","slug":"poppies-and-wheat-another-of-grandmamas-pieces-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/11\/poppies-and-wheat-another-of-grandmamas-pieces-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Poppies and Wheat – Another of Grandmama’s Pieces (Introduction)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tray<\/a>

Tray – Poppies And Wheat<\/p><\/div>\n

The design for this tray was embroidered by my Grandmama during the period when she and her sister and all their children were evacuated to Burton in Westmorland during the Second World War.<\/p>\n

\"Signed<\/a>

Signed On The Back<\/p><\/div>\n

We know that because it has been signed on the back!<\/p>\n

Besides, my mother remembers it being used on ceremonial occasions. It was always a trial – it’s very heavy (because of the glass), rather slippery (glass again) and doesn’t have much of a rim to keep what’s on it safe. Especially with four children and a dog in the house.<\/p>\n

In fact Grandmama, and now my mother, both resorted to propping it up somewhere and using it as a cross between a picture and an ornament. It makes a rather large ornament, too. I’ve seen mirrors over fireplaces that weren’t much bigger!<\/p>\n

And of course – again because of that wretched glass – most of the time you can’t really see the embroidery for the reflections. Which is a pity, because it is exquisitely worked, probably one of the pieces overseen by Grandmama’s embroidery teacher, Miss Hunter<\/a>. Recently my mother decided to take it out of the tray, find some way of cleaning it of some of the discoloration, and mount it properly as an embroidery. Naturally we will find some way to remount the signature from the back as well.<\/p>\n

Needless to state, this turned out not to be as easy as we might have hoped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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