As you see, a lot has happened to Doorway Two since all your helpful ideas on orientation. The original silk is now covered in a fine netting, and there's a roofline stitched in. So it's become a kind of paradox, a childlike house containing a doorway, looking out at a house and doorways, and you don't know if you're inside looking out, or outside seeing it from the street, or not. I like this.
Anyway, this is the current state of Doorway Two, and since it's very fragile looking in person, it might also be backed with a piece of handweaving. Not sure yet. I have to see it on the wall a couple of days before I know. And the fringes will need a day or two to calm down and lie flatter.
The dowel type thing you see is a pickup stick, from a set I'll be using at my paper jewelry workshop to teach people beadmaking! this one had just the right color for the piece.
But as always, open to suggestions. I'm thinking of a much finer weave than on Doorway One, using one of my cardboard looms and finer yarn, just so it's not overwhelmed. If I decide on weaving, that is.
The glistening fringes look nice now, all knotted and frayed at the ends to make them airy and light, but they were definitely one of those why did I start this processes. I was making lark's head knots through netting with the finest crochet hook, like working in mid air on nothing, and it was good when it was done. But I do like how it worked. This reminded me of working with that gold rayon thread, lovely when done, very trying to work with.
While I was looking for something else, I found a sleeve of netting, the kind you get fruit in, and cut parts to use here as a freeform trellis around the doorway.
Not sure what total shape the doorway will be this time, curved, pointed, square, that will emerge. Here's a general picture, then a tighter shot to show a bit better detail. The curving shapes at the top might end in a kind of point.
Meanwhile I stitched down the net at the junctions, pulling to make these more interesting shapes, then I'm couching a silver trail around and across it. In rl the background has a lot more light green in it than you see here. Disregard the trailing white thread, it's just the couching thread trailing from the needle. I think this piece will probably be appliqued to some close woven fabric, yet to be found.
It's starting to look as if I'm doing time of day. Doorway One is a night scene, Doorway Two looks like early morning, and perhaps Doorway Three, yet to be figured out, might be afternoon/evening.
I'm finding that the LED lamp is a very handy little
tasklight for brightening up the general ambiance around the piece for
taking pix. At this time of year when I can't take the camera outdoors, this is useful. My little point and shoot needs all the help it can get.
So after studying Doorway One on the wall for a while, and thinking I like those wonky beads, then I don't like those wbs, then I don't know about those wbs, I ended up realizing they were the wrong thing. So today I removed all the beads and replaced them with straighter lines of blue beads, and a nice copper ribbon ending with beads of some semi precious material whose name escapes me.
And I'm much happier with the whole thing. This piece is surprisingly heavy, what with all the brass chain and the two heavy beads. It feels good.
Last night at the embroiderers' stitch in I started on the next in the series, different color feeling, different sense of doorway.
This is another polaroid transfer image on nylon superimposed on a piece of knitted sparkly fabric I hand dyed in greens. So we'll see where this goes. The image looks big because it's in a very small hoop. But it's the same size as the Doorway One image up above.
I started with the usual snailtrail not much idea of where it's going yet, but that will unfold, I expect.
