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Peaceable Kingdom, Update 3
Jul. 8th, 2018 12:18 pmAll done.
Stretched, matted, framed. And cleaned of 42 years’ worth of dust. Now it’s behind shatter-resistant acrylic, so if some disaster were to strike and the “glass” broke, it’s very unlikely to harm the needlework.
There’s extra space now at the top and bottom, above the butterfly and below the signature, and I think it makes a huge difference in the look of the piece — in the old one, it seemed sort of crowded into the frame, at least in the vertical dimension. Now, there’s plenty of white space, and then more white space provided by the matting. It really draws the eye in to the center, and the thin gold mat draws out the gold undertones in all the brown animals (not to mention the gold in the lion!). Mom and I are both very pleased.
Stretched, matted, framed. And cleaned of 42 years’ worth of dust. Now it’s behind shatter-resistant acrylic, so if some disaster were to strike and the “glass” broke, it’s very unlikely to harm the needlework.
There’s extra space now at the top and bottom, above the butterfly and below the signature, and I think it makes a huge difference in the look of the piece — in the old one, it seemed sort of crowded into the frame, at least in the vertical dimension. Now, there’s plenty of white space, and then more white space provided by the matting. It really draws the eye in to the center, and the thin gold mat draws out the gold undertones in all the brown animals (not to mention the gold in the lion!). Mom and I are both very pleased.
