Saw this in an issue of Piecework Magazine (July-August 2012)
It is a portion of a photograph titled: The “Saint, Symbol, and Animal,” nine elements of a church training piece worked in the third year of the Royal School of Needlework Apprenticeship program from 1913 through the early 1950s. Photograph courtesy of the Royal School of Needlework.
I admire the way the colors and shading are used to make it look three-dimensional, and I also enjoy folkloric beasts. (although this one is likely based on the common seahorse)
It is a portion of a photograph titled: The “Saint, Symbol, and Animal,” nine elements of a church training piece worked in the third year of the Royal School of Needlework Apprenticeship program from 1913 through the early 1950s. Photograph courtesy of the Royal School of Needlework.
I admire the way the colors and shading are used to make it look three-dimensional, and I also enjoy folkloric beasts. (although this one is likely based on the common seahorse)
3 comments:
Wow! That is a magnificent piece!
This is a stunning piece, I blues blend beautifully.
If you have the time and haven't already, take a look at the Goldwork done by the Royal School of Needlework it is amazing.
IN fact Mary Corbet does some fantastic gold work too http://www.needlenthread.com/
Beautiful. And intriguing, in that I picked out a card yesterday of a seahorse in those colors to send to my MIL, who is in hospice care. We had just been to Coronado Island, and so I was sending her a bit of the sea.
And then I come here and recognize the symbol and colorway both. Harmonic convergence.
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