Lady had been scored on design and 'mounting' and lost a few marks for one of her corners. The board it was mounted on was far thicker than necc and after getting down to two frame options, one she liked that would swallow everything easily and one that would not unless I re-stretched the piece over a thinner support - which she liked better, we decided I'd re-stretch it.
She said she was 'sure' she had laced it, but she may have used some adhesive - no, no that was it, she only used adhesive to stick two boards together.
So - off I went with a seam ripper to remove the calico back.
This is as far as she had got with lacing ...
Probably after realising it would be a waste of time after GLUING it like this ....... It's some type of very aggresive adhesive; not tape.
I thought the piece was stitched through two pieces of fabric, but thankfully the bottom piece was glued to the board and the fabric the work is done on was stitched to it - with the criss cross mess of stitches in the 4th shot above.
Otherwise removing it would have been a nightmare - but after undoing all those stitches and the sewn together mitred corners - off it came
The two boards were stuck with copydex - Hmmmmm reversible - look it just rolls up - like a bogie.....
So - where was this course done - at a local guild?
Nope - wait for it - a diploma course at ..........
The ..........
Royal
School of
Needlework
Tadaaaa!!!
Well, I'll find out more when she returns but surely the RSN did not teach those methods - surely she used her own method and presented a finished piece for marking.
