Bead Embroidery Kit on Art Canvas "Mimosa"

“Mimosa” is a spring bouquet in a woven basket: fluffy yellow mimosa branches, red-and-yellow tulips and a few white buds tinged with pink. It carries the mood of early spring, when flowers come into the house before the warmth does.

What the picture shows

Yellow leads everything here. The mimosa is worked in small beads of several warm tones, from lemon to ochre, so the branches look fluffy and almost tactile. The tulips add red, white and pink patches, the foliage a handful of greens. The background is deliberately muted — grey-turquoise with a pink undertone — and it stays as print on the artist canvas, as do the shadows under the basket. Beadwork covers the flowers, the leaves and the woven basket, which pushes the bouquet forward and gives it all the light. Sixteen colours allow smooth shifts inside the mass of yellow. The mimosa branches spill out of the basket in every direction, giving the bouquet a rounded, generous silhouette.

What is in the kit

• Artist canvas with the full-colour pattern printed on it — no chart to follow on a screen
• Czech Preciosa beads, 16 colours
• Beading needles
• Thread for bead embroidery
• Instructions and finishing guide

Specifications

• Finished size: 200×255 mm (7.9×10 in)
• Beads: approx. 5,877
• Bead colours: 16
• Difficulty: average
• Base: artist canvas

The piece is vertical and compact, at home in a kitchen, a dining room or a small room. Gallery finishing is possible — the canvas stretches over a bar.