Microbead Embroidery Postcard-Envelope Kit "Chamomile field"

“Chamomile field” is a bunch of daisies and cornflowers spilling out of a wooden frame with a landscape in it. The idea is simple: the flowers will not stay inside the picture.

What the picture shows

A rectangular frame stands on the left, worked in bronze and copper beads in uneven, deliberately rough rows, so it looks like a home-made stretcher. Inside it the printed landscape is left as it is: a field, a line of trees, a blue band of hills and white blossom below. On the right a bouquet tips over the edge of the frame — five large white daisies with raised yellow centres worked in circles, and between them cornflowers and forget-me-nots with small blue petals. The leaves and stems use three greens, from yellow-green to dark. The ground around the bouquet stays as pale print, so the flowers look as though they were lying on top of a photograph.

What is in the kit

• Art canvas with the full-colour design already printed on it — no chart to follow on screen
• Czech Preciosa micro beads, 7 colours
• Needles for micro-bead embroidery
• Thread for bead embroidery
• Cardboard blank
• Instructions

Specifications

• Finished size: 84×140 mm (3.3×5.9 in)
• Beads: approx. 1,731
• Bead colours: 7
• Difficulty: high
• Base: art canvas

The finished size is 84×140 mm. The finished card is signed and given, or set into a mat — the frame in the photograph is not part of the kit. The difficulty is high because of the fine beads.