{"id":8379,"date":"2015-01-13T09:03:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T09:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=8379"},"modified":"2015-01-12T16:35:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T16:35:27","slug":"loading-the-felucca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/13\/loading-the-felucca\/","title":{"rendered":"Loading the Felucca"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Loading The Felucca<\/p><\/div>\n

Here is another one of the photographs from the Egypt Exploration Society<\/a> that I would like to represent in some way.<\/p>\n

The expedition felucca was loaded with all the excavated finds and taken to Cairo so that the Cairo Museum Director could choose what would be retained for their collection. The carpenter spent weeks making special boxes to carry the more delicate finds, like Hatiay’s carved door lintel, and a large section of decorated wall plaster (more things for me to embroider!). Then everything had to be loaded on to the felucca…<\/p>\n

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First Layer<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve decided to concentrate on the group carrying the packing case. Partly this is because the whole photograph is a little confusing and difficult to decipher in places, and partly because they rather drew my eye, and I want to experiment with appliqu\u00e9. What I hope to do is “dress” each figure, so the folds of the fabric I use creates the folds in the garment. I have no idea whether this will work, but if I don’t try I will never know!<\/p>\n

Last time I was at the Harrogate Show I found myself in unfamiliar territory, frequenting the patchwork stands, in search of suitable fabrics for the ground and the clothes. I’ve used a piece of silk dupion from The Silk Route<\/a> for the river. It’s a pale grey-green, and I think I will have to find somewhere else to use it to pull it into the overall design properly, but it has a lovely subtle sheen that looks quite watery.\u00a0 I’ve attached it around the edges using strands pulled from the weft, because I have nothing else suitable. The ground is a sandy cotton, doubled because I could see the silk through the first layer, and attached using a single strand of stranded cotton from my stash.<\/p>\n

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Threads For Packing Case<\/p><\/div>\n

You last saw the fabric I chose for the packing case being used as the background for the Crock of Gold Hoard<\/a>. It’s a flimsy overdyed turban cotton which won’t take much stitching without reinforcement, so I’ve backed it with a layer of white cotton to give it a bit more body.<\/p>\n

Then I had a wonderful rummage in my stash, and pulled out a selection of silk and cotton threads to play with. The tubes are Mulberry Silks<\/a> threads (also last seen in the Crock of Gold Hoard), and I’ve also laid out a linen thread, two Stef Francis <\/a>stranded silks, and a couple of miscellaneous threads from I-Know-Not-Where.<\/p>\n

This should be fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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