Showing posts with label neck area embroidery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neck area embroidery. Show all posts

Thursday, 15 September 2011

Brown and pink and all things pretty

Cut offs from an old kurta
(basicly a tunic top with a mandarin collar).
The deep pink colour can't really be seen here for one of 2 reasons:
1) my camera isn't as good as eyes at picking up colour
2) an incompetent photographer.
Take your pick. :D
The detail on the neckline area spills out onto the chest area.
The use of beads and pretty gold disks and
the chain like stich embroidery speaks for itself.
A closeup of these cicle disks shows they ae detailed with lines,
so far I haven't found any other fabric adorned this way.
The golden brown beads imbedded
amonst the very fine chain stich
Chain stich how to