Monday, January 24, 2011
Medieval Beasties
Recent machine embroidery test of a design I had digitized. The original was an image of a 13th century Italian tapestry that I manipulated in Photoshop, first isolating one figure, contrasting it to black and white, editing some foliate elements so that it can be mirror-imaged. Here was my first test on black velvet. I'm thrilled with it so far.
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Beautiful! -- can't read the banner -- I'm sure I could, though, if I were holding it where I could turn it about. Is this a new toy, your embroidery machine? -- With so much medieval art accessable by computer, and all the digital manipulation software out there (like Photoshop) you could really turn out some very nice designs -- just think of the embelishments you could do to the clothing you make. . . .
ReplyDeleteWOL - Thank you. I've actually had the embroidery module for some time and am still learning. There are some nice machine designs available but tend to be a bit "cute" for my taste. Ad you say, so many great medieval pieces of art lend themselves to this application.
ReplyDeletewow, that is just gorgeous, I love it. It will be beautiful on some velvet purse!
ReplyDeletemamabeaks - It'll likely be on lots of things...purses, pillows:)
ReplyDeleteLadyhawthorne - thank you!
MM - it looks fabulous !
ReplyDeleteLarry - thank you. Can't wait to apply it to other things.
ReplyDeleteSo. In. Love!!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteDonna - there will be more where this came from!
ReplyDeleteLynn - thank you so much.
Gorgeous, Lisa! Well done!
ReplyDeleteStunning piece of work :-)
ReplyDeleteJno - thank you so much.
ReplyDeleteAaron-Paul - Thanks. I'll likely embellish half my home furnishings with this:)