Kit de broche à broder de perles « Battement de cœur »

“Heartbeat” is an anatomical heart in red beads and sequins with a blue crystal.

What the picture shows

This is not a symbolic heart but an anatomical shape with vessels running upwards. The body of the heart is worked in red, crimson and dark red microbeads, and thirty-eight sequins of two kinds are laid over them — they overlap like scales and give a deep sheen. The vessels are built from silvery beads and seventeen bugle beads, so the lines come out thin and even. A large blue-violet stone sits at the top, where the great vessels meet. Bullion wire in three kinds, forty-seven centimetres together, outlines the vessels. The kit holds 18 bead colours and the difficulty is above average. Inside the outline the canvas is stitched densely.

What is in the kit

• Art canvas with a full-colour design printed on it — no need to follow a chart on screen
• Czech Preciosa beads, 18 colours
• Preciosa microbeads No. 13, 3 colours
• Preciosa beads No. 6 — 2 types (9 pcs)
• A microbead embroidery needle
• Thread for bead embroidery
• Decorative glass stones: hemisphere — 2 types (2 pcs), a leaf, a drop, bugle beads — 17 pcs, sequins — 2 types (38 pcs)
• Bullion wire — 3 types (47 cm)
• Findings for assembling the brooch: a decorative clasp
• Step-by-step illustrated instructions for the embroidery and for finishing the piece

Specifications

• Article: AD-237
• Finished piece size: 51×74 mm (2.01×2.91 in)
• Base: art canvas with a printed design
• Bead colours: 18
• Number of beads: approx. 678
• Difficulty: above average
• Technique: bead and stone embroidery, brooch assembly

The finished piece is 51×74 mm. This is work for someone with experience: sequins, bugle beads and bullion wire sit side by side and each asks for a different technique. It takes the clasp from the kit; the tassels in the photograph are not included.