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DIGITAL PRINT ONTO COTTON LAWN, QUILTED AND WITH INFILL EMBROIDERY Inspired by some Rajasthani figures seen in the hotel in Udiapur and by some embroidered brooches in the Crafts Gallery in Leeds over Easter I decided to try and extend my machine embroidery skills on a small scale using Rajasthani source material. Heads were cut from the digital photograph above, scaled and treated with range of tools in Paint Shop Pro, printed onto paper for my sketchbook and onto fabric transfer paper to begin the embroidery. The images were ironed onto ... I used a variety of ..... |
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| I also used a photograph of ?? painted on the wall at the hotel and a photograph of an Indian Miniature of Shah Jehan and Mumtaz painted at the Artists' Co-operative we visited. |  |
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The next stage is to produce the designs then the panels for the container around which the embroidered portrait panels will be arranged. They do however make nice brooches, which is how they started, but whether I can sell them is an altogether different matter. |
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Lifesize embroidered portraits. I'm still working on how to make them clickable-onable so you can see a six times enlargement of each machine embroidered portrait. In the meantime you can click the picture to the right to bring up a larger version. You'll need to enlarge the resulting screen to see a couple of heads at a time at their maximum size. |
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