Row 53 of knotting on the rug is done and a lesson learned: the medium comes before the design, not the other way around.
When I needed a small image for the center of the rug, the two little trees I hurriedly graphed seemed about right. That is, when viewing the graph-paper "cartoon." Once woven, they "read" as a blurry area due to the coarse weave, thick yarn, and long pile of the rug.
With so few knots-per-square-inch (about 25 in this case), broader areas of color are needed to make an unambiguous image. Time to design the next little carpet!
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| "Trees" are woven -- on to the next orange star |
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| On the right, my working graph of trees. On the left, graph of knots for a clearer tree image. |
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| Close-up of trees knotted at 25 knots per square inch |
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| The front of the rug at row 53 |
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| Detail of back of rug |
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