{"id":2136,"date":"2014-04-21T19:25:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T03:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2023-08-13T10:53:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T18:53:19","slug":"blue-plate-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=2136","title":{"rendered":"Blue Plate Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trawler-half-and-half-lighting2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2142\" alt=\"Trawler half and half lighting\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trawler-half-and-half-lighting2.jpg\" width=\"434\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trawler-half-and-half-lighting2.jpg 434w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trawler-half-and-half-lighting2-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This picture of a North Sea trawler is 4.25 x 5.5 inches.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe sky is purposely featureless; I wanted this to be all about the water.  All the sewing is by hand, but if you look closely you&#8217;ll see that the trawler is made of pieces of hand-painted ribbon, glued or stitched to the background.  The bow wave is some chopped-up yarn and the rigging is thread, mostly half-thickness.<\/p>\n<p>The seagulls were a bit of a saga.  Initial experiments with silk resulted in a frayed mess, and I felt thread would be too bulky.  I decided I wanted Tyvek for its acid-free, non-fraying qualities, and ordered samples from a couple of suppliers ages ago&#8230;but I&#8217;m still waiting.  I discovered FedEx use Tyvek for their envelopes, though, so I got hold of one and it turned out to be ideal.  I tried cutting tiny gull shapes out of it, but found that I got the most natural-looking results by cutting two separate wings and overlapping them slightly.  And I still have enough envelope left for a lifetime&#8217;s worth of seagulls.<\/p>\n<p>More than any I&#8217;ve done before, this piece changes appearance depending on the light.  Any direct light will pick up the sheen of the threads like crazy, as above.  So I&#8217;ve included a shot below of the picture in more dull lighting.  You&#8217;ll notice the gulls stand out more and it looks quite grim.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trawler-unlit1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2141\" alt=\"Trawler unlit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trawler-unlit1.jpg\" width=\"437\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trawler-unlit1.jpg 437w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trawler-unlit1-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This picture of a North Sea trawler is 4.25 x 5.5 inches. &nbsp; The sky is purposely featureless; I wanted this to be all about the water. All the sewing is by hand, but if you look closely you&#8217;ll see that the trawler is made of pieces of hand-painted ribbon, glued or stitched to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3419,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions\/3419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}