{"id":8486,"date":"2014-09-23T09:03:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T08:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=8486"},"modified":"2014-09-22T10:43:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T09:43:39","slug":"the-plan-for-the-dreams-of-amarna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/23\/the-plan-for-the-dreams-of-amarna\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plan for the Dreams of Amarna"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Trialling<\/a>

Trialling Backgrounds<\/p><\/div>\n

I had several very useful comments after my last post, but they all (understandably!) failed to take into account my overall plan for this project.<\/p>\n

So, a quick re-cap, for the benefit of everyone who hasn’t (unlike me) been thinking about the Dreams of Amarna for the last twenty years. I first wrote about this in March 2010<\/a>, but I first started thinking of an embroidery project inspired by the book “Nefertiti Lived Here” a good fifteen years before that!<\/p>\n

I thought about various ideas for the Amarna embroidery for a good five or ten years, on and off, but then it finally came together in about 2008 during conversations with my cousin. In fact I started this blog partly in order to give myself a push, and to make sure that I kept at it.<\/p>\n

\"Left<\/a>

Left Layout<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Right<\/a>

Right Layout<\/p><\/div>\n

My idea at the moment is for two large panels, which will be colour-blocked as mirror images of one another using sandy colours (for the desert) and turquoise (for the faience used so often in ancient Egypt).<\/p>\n

The sandy panels are about 35 centimetres by 50 centimetres, and getting the right proportions for the turquoise will be very important.<\/p>\n

\"Rough<\/a>

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

These panels will be overlaid with a gauze layer, screen printed with the heads of Akhenaten and Neferetiti. I have already done some experiments<\/a> with screen printing on gauze, and I know that not only will it be rather tricky to find the right gauze, but working out how to hang it is going to be a real challenge. The gauze overlay means that colours that are subdued may not show strongly enough – in fact some of my early pieces for the project may end up being mounted as standalone pieces, for that very reason.<\/p>\n

This post<\/a>, from earlier this year, gives you a very rough idea of how the layout may look.<\/p>\n

The Antelope Frieze<\/a> and the Felucca<\/a> may both turn out to be too inspidly coloured to show through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had several very useful comments after my last post, but they all (understandably!) failed to take into account my overall plan for this project. So, a quick re-cap, for the benefit of everyone who hasn’t (unlike me) been thinking about the Dreams of Amarna for the last twenty years. I first wrote about this… Continue Reading The Plan for the Dreams of Amarna<\/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-8486","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\/8486","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=8486"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8517,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions\/8517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}