LET THE SPRIGGING COMMENCE! (AND A PRESENT)
First, let’s get the present out of the way, since that’s what most of you are here to see. In honor of the Year of the Horse, here is a linear strip, for your personal/non-commercial use.
Now on to the blather.
I have finished the outer frame and wide inner band on my Italian multicolor piece.
The next step is the interior edging of sprigs that circle the two empty panels, left and right. (Also proof that I do use my Lowery stand with hoops as well as large, heavy frames.
I am basing the use of these sprigs on the original artifact. The original however was significantly bigger than mine. It features both large and smaller sprigs, all quotes from the border and band design. But because my piece is smaller, I think that alternating big ones and little ones will make it a bit crowded, so I will be using only the smaller sprigs. This next photo is of the original – MFA Accession 83.242, Italian, 16th century.
All in all I’m pretty pleased with my fidelity to the original. There are some deviations, but not many. Note that edge bit where the wide center strip joins the frame. My rendition hits in exactly the same spot of the repeat. Which surprises me since no corner of the original was identical to mine (a deviation for sure), and no two corners of the original were identical.
Hmm… Looking at this a bit more closely…
I may rip my first two sprigs back and fix the length of the lower curl, then re-plot the spacing accordingly.
String-Or-Nothing 