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

“St. Oleg” is a prince in monastic dress, a dark cowl over his head. The darkest icon in the batch — brown and deep red.

What the picture shows

The saint is shown to the waist in a dark monastic cowl that covers his head and shoulders. His beard is grey and his gaze is lowered. The mantle is worked in dark brown beads shot with russet, and a band of red clothing shows beneath it. His right hand is pressed to his chest, his left is lowered. The halo is a narrow ring of amber beads and the ground is golden rays, particularly striking against the dark figure. A gold border runs along the whole edge, and the lower part of the image is taken up by a name plaque between two ornaments. 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. 2,021
• Bead colours: 10
• Difficulty: simple
• Base: art canvas

This is a name-day icon: it is given for a name day or a christening and set on a shelf or a home icon corner. The framing in the photograph — moulding and glass — is chosen separately and is not included. The beads are stitched in rows, with colours picked straight off the printed image.