Following on from your feedback Sian, I prepared two more samples (you noticed there was space on the gold and silver samplers for more!).
MM42 - prepared in a similar way to MM34, here couching the gold wrapping threads with blue metallic thread in the negative, rather than the positive area.
In the two new samples here I stitched the outer rectangle first as the cardboard had become distorted as I stitched the centre in the previous samples and when I came to stitch the outer rectangle it had, therefore, been distorted too.
MM43 and 44 - similar to MM37/38, here silhouettes of birds trapped in the threads and machine couched down in a grid pattern.
MM43 and MM44 are pictures of the same sample. In MM43 the sunlight was shining on the sample and it is difficult to make out the gull shapes. In MM44, taken in the shade, it is easier to make out two of the gulls. There are infact five. To make them more clearly visible there should probably be fewer threads wrapped round the frame, leaving more dark ground visible and therefore giving the silver gulls a chance to shine through...if that is the effect looked for. Otherwise some of the gulls will appear as if in shadow. That's a possibility for me then.
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