{"id":757,"date":"2011-01-15T23:24:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T07:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=757"},"modified":"2023-08-13T07:17:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T15:17:16","slug":"spirit-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=757","title":{"rendered":"Spirit of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/gallery-sos.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-778\" title=\"SpiritOfSpring600b\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SpiritOfSpring600b-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SpiritOfSpring600b-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SpiritOfSpring600b-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SpiritOfSpring600b.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>This looks similar to my earlier picture Blossoming (and is based on another &#8220;slice&#8221; of the same tree) but is created differently, by gluing down thread lint rather than with machine stitching. There&#8217;s a little bit of hand stitching of branches and twigs.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it did take ages, and no, I don&#8217;t mind : )<\/p>\n<p>To make the lint I chop up thread in the colours that I want. \u00a0There are people who make art from dryer lint by the way.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the camera doesn&#8217;t catch it, but the lint is heaped up a few mm thick in places, so that it sticks out at you. \u00a0Because the spirit of spring just cannot be restrained : ) \u00a0The darker, shadowed parts I squashed down deliberately to make them recede physically away from you. \u00a0A certain amount of sculpting has gone on in this piece, on a small scale (I use my fingers or a toothpick).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-835\" title=\"SpiritOfSpringDetail600b\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SpiritOfSpringDetail600b1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SpiritOfSpringDetail600b1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SpiritOfSpringDetail600b1-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SpiritOfSpringDetail600b1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I leave you with a wee close-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This looks similar to my earlier picture Blossoming (and is based on another &#8220;slice&#8221; of the same tree) but is created differently, by gluing down thread lint rather than with machine stitching. There&#8217;s a little bit of hand stitching of branches and twigs. Yes, it did take ages, and no, I don&#8217;t mind : ) [&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\/757"}],"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=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":94,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1544,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}