Kit de broderie de perles petit format – icône « Sainte Élisabeth »

“St. Elizabeth” is a saint in blue-grey monastic dress with a white wimple. The coolest palette in the batch.

What the picture shows

The saint is shown to the waist, her head slightly bowed. A white wimple worked in pale beads frames her face, and a long blue-violet veil lies over it, falling across her shoulders and chest in wide folds. A dark cross on a cord hangs at her chest, and her right hand holds a prayer rope. The halo is a ring of amber beads and the ground is golden rays. A pale name plaque closes the composition at the bottom between two ornamental squares, and a narrow gold border runs round the edge. The clothing, the halo and the border are beaded; the face, the hands and the golden rays 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, 11 colours
• Beading needles
• Instructions and finishing guide

Specifications

• Finished size: 100×150 mm (4.0×6.0 in)
• Beads: approx. 2,034
• Bead colours: 11
• 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.