Toile imprimée pour broderie de perles (sans perles) « Vue sur les toits »

«Overlooking the roofs» shows a girl in a wide hat swinging in a hammock with a book and a kitten, high above a town of tiled roofs.

What the picture shows

The hammock is strung across the whole upper part of the picture: a striped cloth with long lilac fringe, and on it a red-haired girl in a broad hat trimmed with flowers. A dark Siamese kitten sits on her lap; an open book is in her hands. Below spread the town roofs — ochre, terracotta and pink, with a bell tower and a clock tower on the right. Along the parapet in the foreground stand pots of flowers: pink geraniums, green leaves, a shrub of small blooms. The sky is pale blue with white clouds. The beadwork is partial: beads cover the hammock, the figure, the kitten, the flowers and the roofs, while the clouded sky stays painted on the canvas.

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: 200×200 mm (7.8×7.8 in)
• Beads needed: approx. 3,375
• Bead colours: 28
• Base: natural artist canvas

The square piece is at home in a bedroom or a reading corner. It suits stitchers drawn to townscapes with a human figure and plenty of small architectural detail.