Toile imprimée pour broderie de perles (sans perles) – icône « Sainte Valentine »

“St. Valentine” — a half-length image of a young martyr in a lilac veil, holding a cross in her folded hands. The mood is quiet and collected.

What the picture shows

The saint stands almost frontally, her head slightly turned. A lilac-violet maphorion covers her head and shoulders in soft folds; a light undergarment with fine trim shows at the neckline. She holds a small cross of a warm brick-red tone before her. The halo is golden-yellow, pale at the centre, with thin rays. The ground is light cream with a barely visible foliate pattern. A dark brown border of diamonds and rosettes runs around the edge, with fan-shaped segments in the upper corners and an inscribed cartouche below. The fill is partial: beads cover the robes, the veil, the halo and the border ornament, while the patterned cream ground and the painted face and hands stay printed on the canvas, which keeps the features softly painterly.

What you get

• Natural artist canvas with the full-colour pattern printed on it — no chart to follow on a screen
• Colour key for Czech Preciosa beads
• Beads, needles and thread are chosen separately

Specifications

• Finished size: 170×230 mm (6.7×9.06 in)
• Beads needed: approx. 5,132
• Bead colours: 12
• Base: natural artist canvas

The piece is vertical and restrained in colour. Such an image suits a home icon corner or a shelf of its own, and it is often stitched as a name-day icon.