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The top poem is ‘The Divine Image’ from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence. The lower poem is ‘The Human Abstract’ from Songs of Experience. Half way through finishing the lower piece I realised I should have done it upside down rather than just right aligned. So that at any one time only one of the poems would have been the correct way up to read. Live and learn.

The top poem is ‘The Divine Image’ from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence. The lower poem is ‘The Human Abstract’ from Songs of Experience.

Half way through finishing the lower piece I realised I should have done it upside down rather than just right aligned. So that at any one time only one of the poems would have been the correct way up to read. Live and learn.

Filed under William Blake Songs of Innocence Songs of Experience showing the two contrary states of the human soul embroidery sewing cross-stitch translation colour art craft artists on tumblr

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This represents about five hours work. It’s not the sewing that takes so much time, but the jumping around, finding the next spot, occasionally undoing, realising you’ve forgotten a solitary N somewhere and finding the thread out again just to fill in that one letter. This is just under half of the planned piece. It’s William Blake’s ‘The Divine Image’.

This represents about five hours work. It’s not the sewing that takes so much time, but the jumping around, finding the next spot, occasionally undoing, realising you’ve forgotten a solitary N somewhere and finding the thread out again just to fill in that one letter.

This is just under half of the planned piece. It’s William Blake’s ‘The Divine Image’.

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