{"id":8259,"date":"2014-07-22T09:03:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T08:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=8259"},"modified":"2014-07-17T21:11:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T20:11:18","slug":"dreams-of-amarna-the-antelope-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/22\/dreams-of-amarna-the-antelope-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams of Amarna – The Antelope Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Antelope<\/a>

Antelope Carving – Photo copyright The Egypt Exploration Society<\/p><\/div>\n

When I finished the Hittite Amulet,<\/a> I didn’t have another piece ready to go, but feeling a little jaded with metal threads, I didn’t want to move straight back to the Tudor Rose<\/a>… So I went rummaging in the wonderful selection of photographs that the Egypt Exploration Society<\/a> allowed me to have copies of to use as reference, and found a photograph of a small piece of stone, carved with part of a frieze of antelope.<\/p>\n

\"Antelope<\/a>

AntelopeFrieze<\/p><\/div>\n

I transferred the design onto some handpainted silk using the prick-and-pounce method, and went over the lines with a pencil, then framed it up over a calico backing, picked out a skein of hand-dyed twelve strand silk and thought about stitches.<\/p>\n

In the end I decided that what had attracted me to the photograph was the simplicity of the lines against the slightly uneven texture of the stone, and so I should make my version absolutely simple too.<\/p>\n

\"Antelope<\/a>

Antelope Close Up<\/p><\/div>\n

With that in mind, all the lines will be in reverse chain stitch, worked as small and as evenly as I can manage without using a magnifier, for all the lines. Reverse chain stitch is so much easier than ordinary chain stitch when the fabric is in a frame!<\/p>\n

I am thinking of using Hungarian Braided Chain<\/a>, which I worked on the Crane Pot<\/a>, for the edge, but I am also considering the possibility of not stitching a frame at all, but instead stretching the silk over a piece of skirtex cut to the shape of the stone.<\/p>\n

This is a real contrast with the Glittering Nightcap<\/a> – very simple and very “minimal”. Almost like a palate cleanser after a heavy meal!<\/p>\n

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