I have just tried the link from my post about Angers, and the Apocalypse Tapestries, and discovered that the link was wrong. I have fixed it now - here.
You may also have noticed that I had felting in the title of my last blog but there was no mention of felting in the text. That is because I decided to delete that part but forgot to fix the header. Accolades (clap, clap) to those who noticed!
I actually tried to mark the correction in the header (as I had done with the misspelling of Apocalypse in another header) but ended up striking through all the text in all my blogs, so I quickly deleted that. I have no idea why it happened and am not going to try that again in a hurry.
I will blog about the felting soon. Perhaps. It was not a great success but I did get some interesting tiny parts.
Showing posts with label The Apocalypse Tapestries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Apocalypse Tapestries. Show all posts
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Apocopalypse
I have just read about the word apocalypse on Words All Around and it reminded me that I haven't posted my pictures of the Apocalypse Tapestries that we saw in France. I have mentioned them but didn't know how to post pictures from an iPad (still don't). So here is my chance to revisit the wonderful trip we had.
I remember I had to put my camera on the floor and take the pictures on 2 second delay so the camera wouldn't shake when I pressed the button, hence the odd perspective.
One story we heard was that many of the tapestries were found being used for such things as horse blankets and keeping the frost off the vegetable gardens!
Each tapestry had a description of what part of the apocalypse story they represented, so it took quite a while to take them all in. There was a book about it all, with wonderful pictures, but I decided that it was too heavy to travel with. I will just have to trust in my memories, the pictures and the internet.
I remember I had to put my camera on the floor and take the pictures on 2 second delay so the camera wouldn't shake when I pressed the button, hence the odd perspective.
One story we heard was that many of the tapestries were found being used for such things as horse blankets and keeping the frost off the vegetable gardens!
Each tapestry had a description of what part of the apocalypse story they represented, so it took quite a while to take them all in. There was a book about it all, with wonderful pictures, but I decided that it was too heavy to travel with. I will just have to trust in my memories, the pictures and the internet.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Angers
We have reached Angers today and visited the cathedral to view the wonderful building, the stained glass windows and the tapestries. It is interesting to see the tapestries so high up and imagine them with less faded colours, they would have been fabulous. We are off to see the Apocalypse tapestries tomorrow - that should be yet another highlight.
We have seen so many tapestries lately, it is great to know that so many have survived all these years. The reds and blues have lasted better than the yellows and greens and it was good to have visited the tapestry workshop at West Dean because is gives us an idea of what the tapestries might have looked like when new, very colourful.
The techniques used in the old tapestries are interesting to see also. I am trying to de die what sort of design to use when we have our week of tapestry weaving next week, it has been so stimulating this past week and a bit that I haven't made up my mind yet.
Still no photos to share, will try to get on to that soon.
We have seen so many tapestries lately, it is great to know that so many have survived all these years. The reds and blues have lasted better than the yellows and greens and it was good to have visited the tapestry workshop at West Dean because is gives us an idea of what the tapestries might have looked like when new, very colourful.
The techniques used in the old tapestries are interesting to see also. I am trying to de die what sort of design to use when we have our week of tapestry weaving next week, it has been so stimulating this past week and a bit that I haven't made up my mind yet.
Still no photos to share, will try to get on to that soon.
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