When our apartment was flooded last year some of my
embroidery was damaged. To preserve
textiles they need to be stored in special acid free cardboard boxes. Unfortunately I kept the box on the floor of
my closet. So the pieces that were on
the bottom of the pile were soaked with water.
I dried them out as best I could and now I am in the process of replacing
the cardboard backing since it warped when they were wet.
In the case of this piece, and a few others, some of the
blue dye from the box transferred to the art.
For the most part I was very lucky and it didn't go beyond the outer rim
of the pieces. But this one was an exception. That having been said when I looked at the
effect of adding the blue to the yellow thread I liked it.
So I
decided to post it in its new form.
And I also realized that in future pieces it might be fun
to use a bit of watercolor paint on top of some of the lighter thread colors to
get a more varied look. I'll have to
give it a shot at some point.
Cheers!
PJ
(c)
2019 PJ Lehrer
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