Kit icona ricamata con perline su tela d'artista «San Demetrio»

“St. Dmitri” is a young warrior prince holding a model of a white church. The mood is ceremonial and quiet at the same time.

What the picture shows

The saint is shown to the chest against a cream ground with an embossed foliate scroll. A red-and-gold crown with a pearl rim sits on his head, and a broad amber halo stands behind it. A crimson cloak patterned in gold covers his shoulders, over a blue-violet kaftan with a fine border. In his left hand he holds a white church with blue domes; his right rests on a shaft. A pale plaque at the top carries his name in Church Slavonic, and beaded fans open in the upper corners. The beads fill the robes, the crown, the halo and the corner fans, while the face, the hands and the cream scrolled ground stay as printing 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, 18 colours
• Beading needles
• Instructions and finishing guide

Specifications

• Finished size: 230×300 mm (9.0×11.8 in)
• Beads: approx. 8,867
• Bead colours: 18
• Difficulty: average
• Base: art canvas

The format is vertical, 230×300 mm, so the icon sits on a shelf or hangs on the wall of a home prayer corner. The beads are stitched in rows straight onto the printed field, so there is no chart to check on a screen and the work moves along evenly. The frame in the photograph is not part of the kit: it and the glass are chosen separately once the embroidery is finished.