Kit de broderie de perles petit format – icône « Saint Denis »

“St. Denis” is a monk in a black klobuk holding a model church. The most graphic image in the batch — black against white.

What the picture shows

The saint is shown to the waist, with a long white beard and a black klobuk falling onto his shoulders. The mantle is black too, worked in dark beads with faint grey glints, so the figure reads as a silhouette. In his hands he holds a small white church with a red roof and a golden dome. The halo is amber and the ground is golden rays, which sound especially bright against the black. At the bottom there is a pale plaque set in a gold frame, with two squares of red-and-gold bead ornament on either side of it. The clothing, the ring of the halo and the border are beaded; the face, the hands and the gold ground are left to the print.

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, 10 colours
• Beading needles
• Instructions and finishing guide

Specifications

• Finished size: 100×150 mm (4.0×6.0 in)
• Beads: approx. 1,960
• Bead colours: 10
• Difficulty: simple
• Base: art canvas

The kit is built on a simple technique: beads are stitched in rows over the printed pattern, with no counting on a grid. Framing — a moulding or an icon case — is bought separately. Nothing needs to be bought for the embroidery itself — all the materials are in the kit.