{"id":2822,"date":"2011-01-22T06:40:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T19:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2011-01-22T06:40:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T19:40:12","slug":"magnification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2011\/01\/22\/magnification\/","title":{"rendered":"magnification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was teaching merezhka on Monday I learned of some amazing products that I&#8217;d never seen before. They were small acrylic domes that you placed on whatever you needed to magnify, and because of the shape of the dome, it magnified it beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>There was no need to &#8220;position&#8221; yourself correctly, or try to focus properly &#8211; the magnification just happened.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/lumidome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/lumidome.jpg\" alt=\"Lumidome magnifier\" title=\"lumidome\" width=\"190\" height=\"193\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2823\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/lumidome.jpg 190w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/lumidome-147x150.jpg 147w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a>I can see all sorts of applications for tools like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you can place it on your pattern to magnify the bit you&#8217;re up to<\/li>\n<li>you can place it on a piece of needlework to get a better, closer view of how its been done<\/li>\n<li>you can place it on your own needlework to get a better view of what you&#8217;ve just done (to fix a mistake or identify a mistake, etc &#8211; not that *you&#8217;d* ever make a mistake!)<\/li>\n<li>you can use it to teach your children about refraction of light (yes, I know, slightly odd, but this is something I would do with one!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The photo is of one of these loupes called a &#8220;lumidome&#8221;. It shows a US one cent piece magnified in it, with a 3x magnification. Such a simple tool! I&#8217;m looking at getting some of these to sell, so if you are interested, please let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was teaching merezhka on Monday I learned of some amazing products that I&#8217;d never seen before. They were small acrylic domes that you placed on whatever you needed to magnify, and because of the shape of the dome, it magnified it beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>There was no need to &#8220;position&#8221; yourself correctly, or try to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favourite-needlework-items","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2829,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions\/2829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}