{"id":8316,"date":"2014-08-12T09:02:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T08:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=8316"},"modified":"2014-08-01T20:59:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T19:59:45","slug":"dreams-of-amarna-a-complete-rethink-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/12\/dreams-of-amarna-a-complete-rethink-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams of Amarna – a complete rethink!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the intervals of stitching, I have been wrestling in thought with the background to the second panel of the Dreams of Amarna<\/a>. My original idea was to balance \u201cThe Map of Amarna<\/a>\u201d with \u201cLondon to Amarna, 1929\u2033, but I have been struggling to envisage how to set the elements into a harmonious pattern. Then I had a conversation with my mother, and did some more leafing through my photographic sources, and all my ideas turned upside down\u2026<\/p>\n

\"Rough<\/a>

Rough Layout of the first panel<\/p><\/div>\n

Here you see a very rough layout, to give you an approximate idea. I’ve laid out the Map of Amarna and the linen for the side and corner panels, and then put the patches on the side panels.<\/p>\n

Of course, the patches won’t be set out in this arrangement. Not least, I am considering putting the cartouches of Akhenaten and Nefertiti on the horizontal panels, which will mean that there would be no space there for any patches at all. Fortunately I can double check that I have the right hieroglyphics, because the Egypt Exploration Society<\/a> have been very helpful!<\/p>\n

There is a fair mix of shapes and sizes of the patches, and the colours seem to be working well, so for the moment I am very pleased with the way this is looking.<\/p>\n

\"Scene<\/a>

Scene At The Dig
Copyright The Egypt Exploration Society<\/p><\/div>\n

And Panel Two?<\/p>\n

Well, I am now thinking about showing the travel in patches around the sides, and showing a section cut from this photo of the excavation in progress on\u00a0 the main panel.<\/p>\n

This will give me plenty of opportunity to use the different threads I used in the Map to differentiate all the people from each other.<\/p>\n

At least, if I get it right, it will…!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the intervals of stitching, I have been wrestling in thought with the background to the second panel of the Dreams of Amarna. My original idea was to balance \u201cThe Map of Amarna\u201d with \u201cLondon to Amarna, 1929\u2033, but I have been struggling to envisage how to set the elements into a harmonious pattern. Then… Continue Reading Dreams of Amarna – a complete rethink!<\/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],"class_list":["post-8316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams-of-amarna","tag-dreams-of-amarna","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316","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=8316"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8341,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316\/revisions\/8341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}