Kit de broderie de perles – icône « Sainte Victoire (Nika) »

“St. Victoria” is a martyr in a pearl headdress with an open scroll in her hand.

What the picture shows

The saint is shown to the waist, her head slightly turned. The headdress is tall, worked in white and greyish pearl beads, with a braid falling from beneath it. Under the crimson mantle a pink-red gown shows, edged with a thin gold band at the throat. Her right hand is pressed to her chest; in her left is an open pale scroll with lines of Church Slavonic text running down to the lower edge. The halo is gold, the ground cream with an embossed scroll. The beads fill the headdress, the mantle, the gown and the halo, while the face, the hands, the lines of the scroll and the ground stay printed on the canvas.

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, 15 colours
• Beading needles
• Instructions and finishing guide

Specifications

• Finished size: 230×300 mm (9.0×11.8 in)
• Beads: approx. 8,257
• Bead colours: 15
• Difficulty: simple
• Base: art canvas

At 230×300 mm the icon is noticeable without crowding a shelf. The beads are sewn on one at a time, in rows running the same way, so the surface lies flat and catches the light evenly across the whole piece. The frame in the photograph does not come with the kit — it is picked separately to suit the room.