#16: Forepart and Sleeves
My first Elizabethan garb – including corset, bum roll, partlet, farthingale, ruffs and hat. Annoyingly, I made the sleeves too short – fixing them is somewhere on my “to do” list.
The forepart and sleeves were of delustered satin. The gown, blue veveteen.
The golden “petal” shapes on the forepart and sleeves were embroidered using a gold Mettler Metallic thread #2108. This is a very fine, smooth gold wrapped thread.
The stitch used is broad chain stitch.
I stitched the pearl “flowers” using a metal 5 petalled flower bead, and then surrounded it with two sizes of pearls. In all there are 142 embroidered gold petals, and 261 pearl flowers.
- Posted in: Beading ♦ Reverse Chain Stitch
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