David Chalmers Alesworth

Embroidered Rug Samples 26th May 2010

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This sample above is about 40″ long and is divided into two halves, pattern wise.

Both are from the Verseilles full sized drawing, the paper-pattern is below.

This is a small crop from the whole plan which will go on to the main rug which is almost 9 ft long.

You can also see nine trees in a light coloured thread, this is now going to be the main embroidery thread (lower right hand side).

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Half of this has been done in black thread. I’d thought the black on predominately dark colours of the rug would actually interruptĀ  the rug pattern interestingly, more mingled as a singled pattern.

However in practice it just vanished. I’m finding the gold too glittery, though I think it resonates well with the idea of Verseilles.

Its too cheap looking and obviously not gold.

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I’m now going to use a buff wool thread, it picks up lighter parts of the Persian pattern and will be sufficiently visble but in character.

I may subsequently high-light with some gold, I need to look for better gold colours.

In the progress of these works it was found that many threads will not work, they bunch on being pulled through the weave of the carpet.

Also there is a very limited degree of control over finer pattern because of the weft and weave of the rug, plus its thickness.

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These are from the number plate below, so far just outlined in silver, filling one in solidly today.

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The second below, is in progress in the market, and may be back tomorrow.

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Struggling to transfer the garden plan this afternoon.

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Dont want to destroy it as it’ll take a whole day to reasemble from tiled A4 sheets, all 98 of them.

Cant find a wide enough printer in Lahore to print the sheet, 69″ wide x 114″ long

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