Bead Embroidery Kit on Art Canvas "Sonata"

“Sonata” is a quiet still life about a small celebration at home: a generous bouquet of garden flowers in a woven basket, an antique metal coffee pot with a chain, an open book of music and a thin porcelain teacup. Everything stands on a wide lace doily, while the background glows in warm amber and cherry tones, as if lit by a table lamp.

What the picture shows

The bouquet gathers burgundy dahlias, white and pink asters, small blue cornflowers and cream daisies — these are the beaded parts, and they carry all the light of the composition. The lace doily is stitched as an openwork pattern: the beads sit further apart there, so the warm surface of the table shows through the weave. The coffee pot, the book and the background stay as print on the artist canvas — beadwork covers only the flowers, the lace and the cup, and against the matte base they clearly stand forward. The colour scheme runs on contrast: cool metal and white lace against a warm red-ochre ground.

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, 17 colours
• Beading needles
• Thread for bead embroidery
• Instructions and finishing guide

Specifications

• Finished size: 250×190 mm (9.8×7.5 in)
• Beads: approx. 2,981
• Bead colours: 17
• Difficulty: average
• Base: artist canvas

The piece is horizontal and intimate in scale, so it fits easily into a living room, a kitchen-diner or the wall above a desk. Gallery finishing is possible: the canvas stretches over a bar and hangs without a frame or mount.