I only attempted one rendering of #faience - beads from a broad collar described early on in #NefertitiLivedHere, in a report inexpertly typed by the director then on site, the year before #MaryChubb joined the expedition to Egypt. As I've said, embroidery has such strong textural and visual personality that something like a direct rendition of a broad collar as you see in the watercolour would be terribly congested, visually confusing, and probably rather dull. The spiral of embroidered beads is lighter, more playful - more fun!

#DreamsOfAmarna #HandEmbroidery #FaienceNecklace #SilkThread #watercolour

In my talk for the Embroiderers Guild, one of my themes was the importance of playing. When you are playing, you relax, and ideas and inspiration surface more easily. I found again some of the watercoloured faience beads I made to play with when I was planning the Faience Necklace piece.

#DreamsOfAmarna #FromAnInklingToAStitch #DownMemoryLane #FaienceNecklace #EmbroiderersGuild

Down memory lane... As I work on ideas and images for my talk for the Embroiderers Guild, I am reminded of some of the more playful ways in which I have developed design ideas.

#DreamsOfAmarna #FromAnInklingToAStitch #DownMemoryLane #FaienceNecklace

I really think that this is going to work. It works better from further away, and I still need to work out how to mount the gauze and whether I need to tweak what I put on them.
But here is Nefertiti, hovering in imagination over the excavation of the city her husband built.

#HandEmbroidery
#DreamsOfAmarna
#ViewOfTheExcavation #CrockOfGoldHoard #HittiteAmulet #FaienceNecklace
#CrestForTheDig
#LotusFlowerFragment #TypedOnCamelback #AssemblingMyPieces #PreparingToDisplay

There are two really complicated shapes among the spots and the rest are rectangular(-ish), so I thought if I mounted the #FaienceNecklace as a circle, it would provide a good midway point, easing the transition.

Of course, I might be overthinking all this...!

#DreamsOfAmarna
#MountingMyWork #PreparingToDisplay