Current state of the snake coif. I posted this on Facebook a few days ago. And I decided to go with the single ply (yes, I know single ply is redundant, but I hate the alternatives) of the original green for the bottoms of the snakes. 

---Ok! So here we are. A picture of how the embroidery is so far. I only have 1/5th of the thread color left and for various reasons I don't want to/am unable to order more. It is a two ply reeled silk. The last picture is the available colors I have that are not earmarked for other projects. I pulled out the two yellow, a light green, and a copper color, and did a line of one ply of each color, paired with one ply(yes, I know saying ONE ply or single ply is redundant) and did a test line. I also, on the top did one line with just a single ply. 

The thought is, that in the remaining non-finished snakes, I would do the top with the two ply old green, and do the bottom of the snake with whatever combo I think would look best. Keep in mind that I also want to come back in and do something to represent the hatching that Trevelyon did on his snakes, and I will have to figure that at at some point. Though I might decided to use something that I can order more of, since I see that part sucking up lots of thread. 

Oh, also, on the left side of each try is the color the green is mixed with, and on the right side is a short line of the 2 ply green, just to show what it would look like paired up with the main color.

Anyway, time to make YOUR opinion know! What do you think I should use for the bottom?
1)The single ply of the original green?
2)the pale green?
3)the pale yellow?
4)the strong yellow?
5)the copper? 

6)you need a better picture of the attempts? 
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The manuscript page is from the Trevelyon Miscellany, and I tiled the page several times and carefully alligned the snakes so that I could keep the scale at as near to the size on the page as I could get, given the reported size of the book (496 x 326 x 494 millimeters), and then I traced the outlines onto a sheet of tracing paper, and then used that and a temporary light table made for by Harry Mencke. Go to this page and you can download a full pdf of the manuscript! https://www.wdl.org/en/item/11292/#q=trevelyon&

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