Project two: Recording and capturing: 1.4 Lines and edges (2)

Whitework sampler

With this textile piece, I was limited by the fact that it was in a sealed glass and wooden frame, as this meant that I was unable to observe the drape and folds that it possessed, but as it was small in scale I was able to observe the stitches and base fabric quite closely.

In the below drawing, using a rough sketchpad paper, A3 size and 5B graphite stick, I try to capture the piece of embroidery as a whole and some of the panels of different stitchery within it:

Here I look in close up at a small area of embroidery and the grid patterns created by it:

These simple lines in graphite stick are a representation of the weave of the linen base fabric:

Here I attempt to capture the flowing nature of some of the patterns found on the embroidery, their sinewy and snake-like curves, all created on a small oblong piece of cream linen:

In the below sketches I try to draw a blown up version of some of the patterns found on the textile piece:

Here, I have drawn what is found on the reverse of the frame in which the embroidery is mounted:

Here my interest is to look at the gaps between the the needlework and the pattern created by them, using the end and the length of the graphite stick to suggest this:

Here, again, I am drawing out the pattern created in one area of the embroidery: