Kit de broche à broder de perles « Déesse Bastet dans la nuit – A »

Bast in the night-A is the same seated cat, this time in a night palette: black beads with copper shifts.

What the picture shows

The base of the figure is black and graphite beads, with copper, bronze and greyish-blue scrolls running over it: a large spiral on the haunch, arcs on the chest, small rings along the back. Black faceted stones are set here and there — they catch the light and break up the dark plane. The eye is a green-blue bead, the one bright point in the whole piece. A silvery-grey outline traces the contour and separates the dark figure from the fabric. Seventeen colours are hard to tell apart one by one, but together they give the metallic sheen this dark version was made for. The printed scheme stays in the gaps between beads.

What is in the kit

• Art canvas with a full-colour scheme printed on it — no need to follow a scheme on screen
• Czech Preciosa beads, 17 colours
• Needles for bead embroidery
• Thread for bead embroidery
• Instructions and a finishing scheme

Specifications

• Size of the work: 56×97 mm (2.21×3.82 in)
• Number of beads: approx. 1,142
• Bead colours: 17
• Difficulty: average
• Base: art canvas

The size is 56×97 mm. In the photo the patch is sewn onto blue linen; the glasses, the beads and the twigs are shooting props. The work is of average difficulty, and the dark shades are worth checking against the scheme in good light.