June 2024 Twining
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Medallions & Points
This month again Carol reaches into the collection of bonnet patterns from ancient Egypt, a bonnet Carol saw in the collection of the Kelsey Museum, number 11911 to be specific. The motif builds on what you've done over the past few months. One element of the motif is the diagonal lines of January. The other element is similar to the diamonds of last month ... but with a twist, something Carol calls "medallions" You might want to begin by working on the medallion, and then try the full-on motif you see at the right. |
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Motif A
The medallion motif is a variation on the diamonds from last month.
Your challenge, should you choose to accept is to work Motif A in three colors, creating a two-coloured medallion
Set up 3 colors, loops of A, B, and C: 6A, 2B, 2C, 2B, 6A, and follow the Motif A instructions. | ||||||
Kelsey Museum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Collection number 11911
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Motif B
Here are the instructions and chart for the motif pictured at the top of the page. As you can see, the medallion can be all of one color, or it can be a two-coloured motif.
Your challenge, should you choose to accept, is to vary the number of threads of the background color, the distance between the contrasting colored threads. This will alter the distance the contrasting colored threads travel diagonally before working the medallion.
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Medallions are used in a number of bonnets in collections of sprang from ancient Egypt. In 2013 Carol examined bonnets in the collection of the German Textile Museum in Krefeld, Germany. She presented information on these bonnets at the Textile Society of America conference in 2018. You can read her paper at the right.
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