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The Lady of Shallot embroidery by *fagashlil:iconfagashlil:

Categories Artisan Crafts > Textiles

©2005-2009 *fagashlil
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Mind if I share this with you?

I started a large wall hanging almost thirty years ago. It consists of applique and very finely-stitched embroidery. It's unfinished. Ten years ago, I needed to start wearing glasses for close-work and I found that I still could not see well enough to work on this. The small detail that I'm showing here is based on Waterhouse's painting of the same name - it has to be one of my most favourite paintings of all time. Each little panel of the hanging varies in size; in some I've included glittery threads. The panels depict mermaids, fairies, elves, flowers, cats, diary items and all sorts of things. It was supposed to serve as a celebration of my life and the things I love.

The detail shown measures around 8"X5".

I'ved decided to move this from my scraps now that DA has anew category. I'll say sorry to my friends who have seen it before [you can ignore it, OK :D]

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~Pandoras-Harbringer Jan 5, 2005, 9:23:00 AM
oh this would be so beautiful finished! Embroidery is so difficult to master!
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*fagashlil Jan 5, 2005, 9:35:09 AM
Thank you so much. I've decided to post another detail from it - a diary item that made me crack up laughing when I spotted it.

I wish I could finish it; it's a piece of work that just grew and grew, each time I had a new idea.
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~ravnen Jan 5, 2005, 3:26:31 PM
I wish I had some idea about embroidery, but I don't!
Still, this looks very impressive to me :D

--
If you can be told what you can see or read,
then it follows that you can be told what to say or think.
-boc
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*fagashlil Jan 5, 2005, 5:04:30 PM
Thank you. I advice against taking it up as a hobby :D But your claws would be very useful for ripping out the stitches I get wrong.
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*astraldreamer Jan 6, 2005, 12:18:54 PM
wow. i didn't realise you were doing it all by hand until I looked at the full view. What a project. I have this painting on my wall.
I love the idea of a life celebration wall hanging.....hmmmm.....just one more thing for me to start?

Mum and I do all our embroidery free style on the machine.
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*fagashlil Jan 6, 2005, 12:55:51 PM
Thanks! It was very ambitious to try. I have used a lot of different type threads to vary the textures - much of this is not even done in regular embroidery silks.
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~kiwihobbit Jan 6, 2005, 3:36:57 PM
... Wow, this is AMAZING. Have you considered getting that lasik surgery, or is your eye condition the kind that won't be corrected with that? This piece is SO beautiful! I love the detail, the way her hair flows, the pink background is so cool... you're incredibly talented!
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*fagashlil Jan 6, 2005, 3:42:09 PM
My eyes are not that bad really, I just can't thread the needles anymore. Someone suggested getting one of those magnified viewer screen things. That may help. Thank you so much. I really adore the original painting. Perhaps I will finish all that embroidery one day :D
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~Lanthir44 Jan 8, 2005, 8:22:58 PM
That's so beautiful!! Is the title from the Loreena Mckennit song?

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"Maybe it had all happened only in his mind. Maybe he was already dead, and this was hell."
--from "Jerusalem" by Cecelia Holland

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*fagashlil Jan 8, 2005, 10:18:20 PM
Thank you. I'm not familiar with the song you mention. I used a postcard showing the painting 'Lady of Shallot' by Waterhouse', which itself is inspired by the poem of the same title by Tennyson - a poem I like a good deal.
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