Bead embroidery icons - a description of different techniques and types of beads

A gift for an anniversary or an angel's day will be a memorable and pleasant surprise. Of course, for every picture you need perseverance and patience. However, embroidery with beads icons( naming in particular) will require greater accuracy and attention. After all, it is necessary to accurately select beads in size and shade to create a large and voluminous figure.

Embroidering icons with beads is also difficult because it is necessary to choose a quality and specific beads. Masters who already have a hand on this needlework prefer to use the Czech seed beads New Sloboda, as well as beads of Japanese production.

To make an icon of your own by yourself, you need to study in detail the photo of the image with which you will work. In this case, you need to be a real artist to convey the subtleties of the shades and the image itself. Therefore, even the most skilled craftsmen do not always undertake this kind of needlework.

And then to help experienced craftsmen and beginners come schemes and lessons how to embroider beads icons for beginners:

Beginning work on embroidering personal icons

Once you have decided on the scheme of a personal icon, you will work on choosing beads. It can be eased by purchasing in a specialized store a set: beads for the icon and the scheme for which the material is selected. If you want to choose the material for the future masterpiece yourself, the world of embroidery offers a huge choice: round, glass beads, matt beads, corrugated.

Features of beads for icons

It would seem that such a special bead for icons? Good beads are good for everything. Its main characteristics are clear - uniform in color, equal in size and with smooth edges. But it is for embroidering icons that the needlework industry offers a special jewelry bead. It is smaller than normal. Embroidery with a jewelry bead from Croche is made on a special fabric with a realistic photo print, a thin needle, thanks to which the image is detailed and looks homogeneous and rich.

Technique

You can embroider icons in several ways;

• Sew on ready-made set;
• Mixed mode;
• Embroider icon on religious calendar.

In the first case, before starting work smooth the bottom of the back. Insert the thread into the needle with both ends. We start from the upper left corner and output to the front side. Thread the bead and sew it diagonally( from the bottom left to the upper right).The first and last bead is fixed twice. In this order, embroider the entire canvas, from left to right and from top to bottom. Face and hands( drawing elements) we cut off the thread.

The most popular way is to expand the face and body with a cross, and apply the embroidery principle plus beads to the rest: icons made in this way look realistic and beautiful. In this case, you must first embroider a mulina, and then sew with beads. Such products look visually larger.

More complicated is the embroidery of icons without a scheme. To do this, use a religious calendar with the image of the one whom they plan to perpetuate. Here is a brief description - a master class embroidery beaded icons without canvas. From the calendar, cut out only the image of the Holy One and copy it to the cloth. Outline the key lines and undressed body parts, cut out and outline their location on the fabric. To embroider in this case it is necessary to begin with large elements( stones, beads, pearls), then small beads are sewn from them. Lastly, we glue the hand and face blanks and we sew them. Before you place the product in a frame or a baguette, you should cover it with varnish, designed for beads.

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