Kit spilla ricamata con perline «Meraviglia dell'India A»

Miracle of India-A is an elephant seen head-on in festive dress, gathered from twenty-seven bead colours.

What the picture shows

The head faces the viewer: wide ears, a lowered trunk, two pale tusks. The ears are worked in greyish lilac and white beads with a golden brown edging along the rim. A headpiece with a red stone at its centre lies on the forehead, blue, turquoise and yellow rows radiating from it, and a coloured pendant hangs between the eyes. Bands cross the trunk — red, blue, green, gold — and it is they that make the figure look dressed for a celebration. Twenty-seven colours, the most in this group, work like mosaic: none of them takes up much space. The printed scheme shows here and there between the beads in a matching tone.

What is in the kit

• Art canvas with a full-colour scheme printed on it — no need to follow a scheme on screen
• Czech Preciosa beads, 27 colours
• Needles for bead embroidery
• Thread for bead embroidery
• Instructions and a finishing scheme

Specifications

• Size of the work: 77×95 mm (3.03×3.74 in)
• Number of beads: approx. 1,244
• Bead colours: 27
• Difficulty: average
• Base: art canvas

The work measures 77×95 mm. In the photograph the patch is sewn onto a blue garment pocket — the clothing and the pendant in the frame are not included. The difficulty is average precisely because of the number of colours: it is worth working through the scheme area by area.