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**virtuosew** @virtuosew@pixelfed.art · Mar 11

Making more progress on Aethelflaed's Walls of Chester. I have to do this in the morning before the sun comes around and starts dazzling and casting shadows.

Er - on those days when the sun shines at all!

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**virtuosew** @virtuosew@pixelfed.art · Mar 3

Mar 3

virtuosew @virtuosew@pixelfed.art

I made some progress on Aethelflaed this morning, a few more blocks in the Walls to be rebuilt. The fairly close colour tones aren't as strong as Cheshire sandstone can be, but I keep telling my students that they are creating a new thing, not a dot-for-dot copy, and that a bit of colour tweakery is entirely justified. So I'd better remember to do that myself, hadn't I!
#Aethelflaed #OpusAnglicanum #SilkThread #HandEmbroidery

Small section of the Aethelflaed embroidery, showing the Walls of Chester being rebuilt. I'm using close tones of pinky orangey colours with some greyish lilac, to try to make the walls settle back behind Aethelflaed and her horse (when I get them in!)

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**virtuosew** @virtuosew@pixelfed.art · Feb 15

Feb 15

virtuosew @virtuosew@pixelfed.art

My heart is sinking a little here. Some time in the middle of the night last week, I thought that Aethelflaed's wall is all wrong and I need to either unpick or stitch over it, outline included.

Cheshire sandstone is hard to render in any medium, and I knew that before I started. But it's still causing me a bit of uncertainty, and I'm struggling to get started again.

#Aethelflaed #OpusAnglicanum #HandEmbroidery #Embroidery #SilkThread

Close up of the start of work on Aethelflaed. The back panel of her dress and a few stones of the wall have been done.

Some experiments at blending colours of thread to calm down the colours.

My design for the panel of Aethelflaed. She's on horseback, about to start refortifying Chester.

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**Rachel Wright** @virtuosew@mathstodon.xyz · Mar 8, 2024

Mar 8, 2024

Rachel Wright @virtuosew@mathstodon.xyz

Detail 4/n...

Stitch direction again, square spirals (?) for the dressed stone of the gatehouse, round ones for the dapples on William's destrier (war horse).

Close up showing the front of the horse against the stonework. The horse is a chestnut, and the stonework is pale grey, pink, and yellow, creating the effect of the light stone of the chateau de Tancarville.

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**Claire Barnes** @ClaireFromClare@h-net.social · Dec 11, 2022

Dec 11, 2022

Claire Barnes @ClaireFromClare@h-net.social

#introduction

I'll post about the life, times & legacy of Elizabeth de Burgh, #LadyOfClare, a spirited English noblewoman of the #14thCentury whose legacy includes #ClareCollege & #ClareHall at #CambridgeUniversity. She & her remarkable network of friends were influential patrons of books, music, institutions & all the arts in a #GoldenAge for English craftsmanship.

a detail of the #PienzaCope

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