{"id":9376,"date":"2015-12-08T09:03:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T09:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=9376"},"modified":"2015-11-19T19:10:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T19:10:01","slug":"the-faience-necklace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2015\/12\/08\/the-faience-necklace\/","title":{"rendered":"The Faience Necklace"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Necklace<\/a>

Faience Necklace
(Copyright The Egypt Exploration Society)<\/p><\/div>\n

After Mary Chubb had her moment of epiphany with the tile fragment I reinvented for The Fragment of Tile That Started It All<\/a> in that Bloomsbury basement, she returned to the office, and her first task was to re-type a recently-arrived Director’s report, since it arrived in no state for publication (“Typed on camelback in a sandstorm<\/a>“, as she described it).<\/p>\n

The first item described in that (shockingly mis-typed) report is a necklace of faience, made using rows and rows of faience shapes in different colours, shaped to depict fruits, leaves, and flowers.<\/p>\n

\"Watercolours<\/a>

Watercolours of the Faience shapes<\/p><\/div>\n

Naturally, I want to embroider a piece that will recall that necklace. Equally, as you can see in the photograph, if I were to attempt to embroider the whole thing, it would either have to be huge, or it will risk being tiny, cramped, and not doing justice to the enchantment she describes.<\/p>\n

\"More<\/a>

More Watercolours of the Faience shapes<\/p><\/div>\n

So I have decided that I am going to create a design that shows only a segment of the necklace. So far that has been hard to do.<\/p>\n

I have tried several draftings and redraftings, and these watercolour fragments are the beginnings of the fourth (or is it the fifth?) attempt to devise something reasonable. I am trying to learn the shapes of the various elements – lotus petals, bunches of grapes, cornflowers, dates, palm leaves.<\/p>\n

What happens next is for another time. I may well be back once more to primary school, cutting out and sticking down pieces of paper.<\/p>\n

I’m so keen to\u00a0 use all my shiniest threads to depict the faience that I’m becoming very short-tempered with myself…!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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