The Liverpool Tapestry:
People, Places and Passions
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The idea was not to use charts, but to make a line drawing of the
subjects and transfer this onto the canvas. The person stitching
would then choose colours, based on the original photos or images,
to fill in the line drawing. This was the easiest way of dealing with
the variety of subject matter, allowing both photos and images
such as badges to be translated into stitch in same manner. This
had worried a few people, and as Elsie and I waited for the first
workshop to start, we
were a little apprehensive
about how many people
would turn up. We hoped
that as many as 20 might
come, as we felt that this
would be a reasonable
turn-out and with a bit of
luck they may enlist some
friends to take part too
–
we hoped to eventually
have as many as 30
regular stitchers.