Chapter 2

 

 

 I tried printing with my Kho-I-Noor paints but they weren't very successful so I tested the colours in fabric paints to give hot and cool colour range

 and tested the bird print on paper

I chose a white cotton 11" by 7" for my samples to show the patterns clearly.

 Print on stitch pattern. 
 I added yellow to some of the eyes for a highlight

Pattern repetition of shapes and spaces.
  the nests were stitched with Cable Stitch.  Some twigs wwere solid, others just outlines.  I used Acrylic paint to be sure of printing through the stitching onto the fabric.  A pink highlight is used in the centre.

Enlarging pattterns. 
 I tried to base the colour scheme on thep icture of the cockrel in my  research.  the metallic green highlight in the centre looks lost.

 

 

 

Border designs, repeating designs.

 Stitched with Granite stitch(red) and the yellow stitching at an angle to give stitched texture.

 

 

Altered pattern. 

 My drawing of eggs and the design for the printing block. 

and the altered tracing.

Some of the shapes are filled with Vermicelli and an emerald green highlight in the centre.  this looks better on the screen than it did in real live so a dusty purple filling of Vermicelli was added next to it.

Thiner and thiner lines in pattern.

The feet were stitched using Perle 5, Perle 8, two threads of machine embroidery thread in the needle, then one thread and finally a 60s bobbin thread. One shape was printed in the opposite direction to the others and outlined with purple to contrast with the paler varigated thread ot the other stitching.

All my samples on the door.

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