TONAL COLUMN IN STITCHERY
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I enjoyed the challenge of this piece. I thought it would be fairly straight forward but once I got started I realised that a degree of planning was required to achieve the gradation of the tones. I used threads of various thicknesses to achieve the effect required.
TONAL EFFECTS USING THE TECHNIQUE OF BLACKWORK
I drew out a number of blackwork stitches on graph paper to get some ideas about how the variation in tone might work out.
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I did a small piece of plain blackwork to gauge the size of thread and linen required.
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Blackwork Tonal Columns using pattern development, spacing of the stitches and thickness of thread respectively to achieve the tonal variations.
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