Never too old?
I'm about three weeks shy of 83 and today learnt another term I'd never heard of.
I do NOT claim to be omniscient by any means - BUT - am still amazed at learning new stuff. It's not many months since I had to search when I saw "colorography" and thought it was a mistyped Calligraphy.
This time I didn't mistake "Stumpwork Embroidery" for anything, I just didn't know it was:-
"What is stumpwork?
Stumpwork or raised embroidery, is a technique that became popular in the 1600s. The idea is to use different stitches and techniques to create raised surfaces".
The Event organiser, Clicky Chick, suggested a visit to Rheged where there was an exhibition "In Bud & Bloom exhibition opens at Rheged." Not possible to assign a genre; there were Paintings, Photos, Wrought Iron, "all-sorts".
Thoroughly enjoyable - BUT - we came away with searches in mind. We'd heard of "Cyanotype" but were ignorant of the full "meaning" and we'd not come across Stumpwork before.
If you're as unlearned as I/we were on cyanotype it's here:-
"The cyanotype is a slow-reacting, photographic printing formulation sensitive to a limited near ultraviolet and blue light spectrum, the range 300 nm to 400 nm known as UVA radiation. It produces a monochrome, blue coloured print on a range of supports, often used for art, and for reprography in the form of blueprints." I suppose the blue is responsible for the "Cyan" part of the name?
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