Blue kantha on dark blue tunic-4

This tunic also as a motif below the yoke borders.

B&B kan-motif pattern

The motif worked with medium blue, dull gold and white threads.

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The motif looked like this after working with dark pink thread.

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Some more running stitch filling and stem stitch outlines were done with medium blue and light blue threads.

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The motif, after working the antique gold beads inside stem stitches.

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The completed tunic-
The yoke with printed fabric-

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The tunic-

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The sleeves with printed border.

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I wear this tunic with light blue [same shade as the printed fabric base] leggings. I do tend to work with these colours quite often!

 

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The pattern for yoke was similar to the sleeves, except for the dark pink details.

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Filling done on part of the squares.

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Triangles on the border worked with the same blue thread.

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After working with light blue thread and dull gold thread. The centre space is for the printed light blue fabric.

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The crosses done with dull gold cotton skein were worked with running stitch filling in dark pink thread.

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The medium shade blue thread was used for lining the oval shapes over the dark pink circles. These  were worked in stem stitch. light blue thread was worked on other part of the triangles on the squares and the border lines.

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Tiny antique beads were added inside the oval shapes. The picture is out of focus here.

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After completing the embroidery on the sleeves, they were placed on the printed light blue fabric which will the border the sleeves.

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Blue kantha on dark blue tunic-1

I was inspired by tunics embellished by simple Kantha embroidery of Bengal. This embroidery was done mainly on sleeves and front of the tunic. The chosen tunic fabric was dark blue striped Mangalagiri handloom cotton. I had this block printed light blue fabric, which I used for the sleeve border and yoke.
The sleeves-
A geometrical border was drawn on graph sheet.

B&B kan-sleeve pattern

The used two strands of cotton skeins in two shades of blue, gold and dark pink. Kantha embroidery is running stitch worked on various patterns. The work looks like weave at some places. Starting with medium blue,

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The triangles which form the square are also worked with this blue-

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Then moved on to golden colour skein

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Multi coloured cream yoke-2

Chain stitches were worked with bluish green thread.

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The curves connecting the border and the small squares were worked in chain stitches with light green thread

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The closer look of the embroidery.

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I gave this embroidered yoke to my friend.it was hard choosing colours without seeing the background fabric, because I sometimes get inspired by seeing the fabric to be embroidered. I generally use colours similar to vegetable dye ,which is important aspect of kalamkari fabrics, to work , but this time it was different

 

Indigo print on yellow tunic-1

This tunic fabric is soft handloom cotton in mustard yellow colour and on it are large block printed floral prints in Indigo blue.

Ipyellow-tunic fabric

The idea was, to embroider neckline and yoke with large and medium round mirrors.This yoke fabric was indigo blue with small stripes in black, which was perfect.

Embroidery details-
The spaces in between the mirror placements were embroidered in Cretan stitch filling in yellow colour of the tunic fabric.

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The yoke part- the Cretan fillings were outlined with zari[metallic] thread. The mirror circles were also outlined in chain stitch with majenta cone thread.

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Brown tunic with kasauti yoke-2

This yoke is embroidered with double running stitch . this pattern is made of three broders. The outer border is also worked with medium green, leaving space for light green.

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Now working with light pink and golden yellow, the progress on the yoke-

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Brown tunic with kasauti yoke-1

This plain dark brown tunic was a soft cotton fabric. idael for hot climates. I wanted to do some embroidery on the tunic fabric itself. For this a pattern was drawn for yoke. this was based on kasauti embroidery from Karnataka, a state in India.

In Kasauti or kassoti embroidery,The geometrical patterns are worked with double running stitch. This way, the right and the wrong side look the same, ideal for sarees, dupattas, scarfs, stoles. Where the wrong side of the fabric is also visible while draping. They are also worked on even weave fabric s which are used as furnishings. To make this method possible, care is taken at the level of drawing the patterns .
This yoke pattern is one such kasauti pattern. Golden yellow,,two shades of pink and green were the colours used for this embroidery. I started with medium pink thread and moved on to medium green thread.

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Red , black,cream kutchwork tunic-2

Still my PC is not fixed. I am finding it difficult to adjust to this new computer. It’ll take another two days to fix my PC.
Pictures were not taken of the kutch work border in progress. Generally, I take pictures of my tunic projects after each colour. This helps me to study the effect of each colour on the project. I adapted this method and took the picture after completing this border.

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Closer view of the border.

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For the cream thread, the details on my next post.

 

Blue ikat tunic with lemon green printed sleeves-2

This embroidery pattern and working are based on ethnic Indian designs.
The progress on the embroidery on this blue yoke- the tunic being woven ikat, the white colour on the tunic formed light blue streaks in some places. The next colour on the yoke was light blue, this was also worked in herringbone stitches.

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With sleeves in lemon yellow, the next colour was lemon yellow with lemon green outline in chain stitch.

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The next shade of yellow was from the tunic. chain stitches were worked with this thread.

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This yellow shade continues with more outlining in chain stitch. The blue thread comes back again with chain stitch outlines. these are for mirrors.

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The completed yoke and tunic on my next post.