For the tapestry’s that both Arachne and Athena create in
the contest, I have already highlighted the main aspects that are included on
them, and I found them online. I wanted to have them on fabric, but was unsure
on how I could create a printing transfer from the image I had, so I took to
YouTube to see if there was a DIY version that I could do it myself; I found
this YouTube video.
In this short tutorial video, it showed me that I could
transfer a photo that I had printed out onto fabric using just pva glue and a
paintbrush, simple things that I can buy from the high street shops. Below you
can see the original image, and then the tester transfer.
Arachne -
“Europa, deceived by Jupiter when he presented
himself in the shape of a bull”
Jean François de Troy, The Abduction of Europa, 1716.
Athena -
“The rock of Mars […]
ancient contest that took place there.”
Jacques-Louis David, The Combat or Mars
and Minerva, 1771.
Once I had created practices that went
really well, I then proceeded to create larger ones that could be used for the
photography shoot. Although both shots below show them in wooden embroidery hoops,
I actually only have one hoop, I will be using it on Athena’s piece, to both
indicate that Arachne beat her in time and also just to help give visual clues
of what has just happened.
Arachne -
Athena -
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