As an experiment to see what is going on with our Internet here, I'm playing with the stamping project and I've been trying to get an illo update on the patka embroidered border posted. So far not much luck with eBlog on my pic upload efforts but we wait and see. We're iced and snowed in. The perfect excuse too, to work on my projects and get the speed accelerated!
At last!
The office has been set up and is functional for the time being. Research books off the floor and shelved. Software - ditto. Lighting almost sorted out. Macs and PC's moved and re-installed, all very successfully! As a temporary set-up this'll work for the next several months.
Have spent the last few days developing the border stamps for the pallus and researching them against extent examples dating from the 13thC through to the 16thC. Redesigned, the stamp for the black motif in the field -- it'll boast a red dot in the centre to add visual life to the solid black geometric, cut the stamp in readiness, cut two border stamps which will be turned and turn-about to embellish the yellow Lawn, designed and cut several pyramidal shapes for the pallu area and am in the final stages of deciding upon the colours for that section. Am brooding on the designs for the hemline borders for both this dhoti and the Peacock chaddar projects. Am trying to source gutta, at this point rather desperately for both the previously mentioned projects. Ditto for silk paint and have been diligently embroidering the geometric border edging the patka in a combination of black and ivory.
So, surprisingly busy.
At last!
The office has been set up and is functional for the time being. Research books off the floor and shelved. Software - ditto. Lighting almost sorted out. Macs and PC's moved and re-installed, all very successfully! As a temporary set-up this'll work for the next several months.
Have spent the last few days developing the border stamps for the pallus and researching them against extent examples dating from the 13thC through to the 16thC. Redesigned, the stamp for the black motif in the field -- it'll boast a red dot in the centre to add visual life to the solid black geometric, cut the stamp in readiness, cut two border stamps which will be turned and turn-about to embellish the yellow Lawn, designed and cut several pyramidal shapes for the pallu area and am in the final stages of deciding upon the colours for that section. Am brooding on the designs for the hemline borders for both this dhoti and the Peacock chaddar projects. Am trying to source gutta, at this point rather desperately for both the previously mentioned projects. Ditto for silk paint and have been diligently embroidering the geometric border edging the patka in a combination of black and ivory.
So, surprisingly busy.
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2 comments:
oooohhhh. .that looks nice!
Ta Reb. It's starting to work. This is where all those samplers and the ground work in reworking those motifs starts to come together and work into a whole entity. You'll have noticed as well, how the original idea starts to develop a life and expression of it's own and changes along the evolutionary route.
Am working up the wheel at the time of writing this and the balance is starting to show as a composition.
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