This will be a post in two parts.
I realised a funny thing the other day – that this (along with, I suppose, the Hawthorn Blossom) are not miniatures, but rather larger than life. This made by chuckle silently inside. I’m sad like that.
Soooooo. Black Henbane. I think it is a GORGEOUS flower:
And I wanted to capture all that lovely veiny detail, obvs. I decided to do a similar thing to the aforementioned Hawthorn Blossom and make detatched wired slips.
And I got some nice heavy white cotton and using fine machine silk, couched it down:
The little holes are where I made a mistake and used the wrong colour. That done I took the correct shade of variegated olive green silk and started to attempt to interpret that beautiful vein structure.
Now, don’t tell me the veins should be purple. I am using the picture above as my guide and I see them as greenish. But to enhance this, I used a nice dull aubergine silk to add detail:
At this point I was feeling like this wasnt going to look like Henbane but I press on. Perhaps a much finer thread for the leaves would have been better? Hmmm.
Using 2 threaded needles I finished off the slip with buttonhole stitch using both cream and purple silks. Here’s the first completed one:
Rinse and repeat…
Yeah, so at this point I did feel like it might resemble said bloom at the end of it. Two more to go and the final construct…
