{"id":437,"date":"2010-11-14T17:44:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T01:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=437"},"modified":"2023-08-12T17:25:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T01:25:35","slug":"silk-underwear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"Silk Underwear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><!--more--><!--more-->Yes, all my pieces of artwork wear underwear! \u00a0Shall we take a peek?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->When a piece is finished I take it out of the hoop and stretch it over a piece of acid-free foam core, which is a yellowish white. \u00a0However, silk already has a yellowish tinge which I usually don&#8217;t want to accentuate and the kind I use at 10 momme is quite see-through. \u00a0The choice of background colour can therefore make a big difference.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So, I put a place a sheet of acid-free paper between silk and foam core, usually &#8220;Arctic&#8221; by Strathmore Artist Papers, a very white white. \u00a0In underwear terms, this would be your classic white cotton.  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-439\" title=\"FoamcoreVsWhitePaper_800 copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/FoamcoreVsWhitePaper_800-copy1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"191\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this picture you may be able to tell a very subtle difference between the left half (with white paper) and the right half (foam core only). \u00a0It may be easier to see in low light. \u00a0The camera doesn&#8217;t pick it up too well but it makes a noticeable difference to the finished work.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I want to darken the colour of the silk, say for a night scene. \u00a0This is where your racy black undies, as it were, come into play in the form of black or some other dark shade of paper.<\/p>\n<p>And some pieces apparently call for a custom-designed garment complete with satin ribbons and bits of fringing! \u00a0At least, that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on with my latest.<!--more--><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-536 alignnone\" title=\"Ribbons_800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Ribbons_8002-300x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Ribbons_8002-300x120.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Ribbons_8002.jpg 994w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><!--more--><!--more-->This is white paper with lengths of pink, cream and blue ribbon or unpainted silk glued on (and some areas deliberately left white) meant to depict reflections on the water. \u00a0I sometimes frayed one or both sides of the ribbon or silk pieces to help make the colours look more graduated.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-451 alignnone\" title=\"RibbonsBehind_800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/RibbonsBehind_8001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"121\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Both underwear and outerwear are very unfinished and I&#8217;m superstitious about showing work at this early a stage, so I&#8217;ll just show a little glimpse of the effect in this last photo. \u00a0The skyline is Vancouver, Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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\/437"}],"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=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":180,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3400,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/3400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}