Cream kutchwork yoke on brown tunic-3

Medium size mirrors were attached in the central spaces. Small antique gold beads went along with the colour scheme, so they were worked inside the kutchwork motifs.

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Cream thread was used extensively for outlines and for embellishing the flowers with straight and fly stitches. Small mirrors were worked inside the flowers.

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The completed tunic-

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The neck detail

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The tunic set-

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The experiment of drawing freeform kutchwork was quite rewarding in this tunic. I may try this idea in future, but not immediately! The colour scheme with mirrors also enhanced this yoke pattern.

 

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Satin stitches were worked on the patterns over the paisley on both sides in green metallic thread.

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After outlining these shapes, light copper colour silk thread was used to fill the flowers [petals?]

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Since, I couldn’t get away from geometric kutch motif, it was worked with red thread with a space for working a big mirror!

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I was in India for my nephew’s wedding. After enjoying thoroughly, we returned to Muscat last week. But the routine is starting slowly. I‘ll post the details of the embroidery on bridal gifts after organizing the pictures.
Now for the details of this tunic, I had bought this salwar from FabIndia.

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A brown handloom cotton fabric with green streaks was chosen for the tunic. Generally I chose kutchwork motifs, borders drawn on graph paper, but for this tunic a freeform of kutchwork was worked with other stitches, beads and mirrors.
The kutchwork pattern on the yoke-

The neckline with paisley and central motif.

 

Red , black,cream kutchwork tunic-3

I had mentioned earlier that this red fabric was block printed with the design -creepers in between parallel lines. Cream thread was worked on this fabric design. Running stitch was used for the lines and creepers and detached chain stitch was used for the leaves.

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This embroidery on the print was done for the sleeves also.
After working these borders, the embroidered pieces were placed over the tunic fabric.

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The tunic –

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The yoke-

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Yoke and sleeves-

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I wear black leggings for this tunic. I love working these three colours together.

 

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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.

 

Red , black,cream kutchwork tunic-1

I had this bright red tunic, block printed with vegetable dye . this was years ago. This red fabric had a curved creeper pattern between two parallel lines. I had worked a kutchwork border on the yoke with mirrors, they were done in black thread and I wore a black salwar[Indian pants] to match this yoke. I don’t have the picture of this old tunic.
I cut the yoke from the tunic . My niece got enchanted by this yoke, and attached it to some plain fabric and wears it. The red fabric without the yoke remained with me.
The present  tunic fabric is in black and cream.

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I felt the  black kutch work on red fabric would look great with this tunic,

so,I took this  old red tunic fabric , drew a new kutchwork border to be worked in black thread. I used the creeper design to work the cream thread.
The kutch work border pattern.

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This design was drawn in between two broader lines on the red fabric.

 

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As requested, I am posting the pattern for this yoke . the details of the embroidery are here.
There are two parts of this yoke.
The centre-

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The borders and the sleeve

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I have posted the working of this medium motif here.

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Brown and orange tunic set-2

The embroidery was worked with cotton floss and silk threads
After tracing the pattern on to a striped brown/yellow/green fabric, the outlines were worked in chain stitches first. Pictures were not taken at this stage, so a smaller version. The threads

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The geometrical pattern was worked in back stitch with red thread. Another small picture. the outline was done in chain stitch with variegated silk thread.

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After this , the embroidery process was recorded. The kutch motifs were worked in two shades of orange, chosen from the dupatta. Kutch motif with medium orange-

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The other motif was worked in light[peach] orange.

 

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In India we get this kind of dupattas [long stoles] block printed on soft cotton fabric. I bought one such dupatta –

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The dupatta was on display on the shop, along with plain cream salwar set[tunic]. It was quite attractive. I took the dupatta alone and thought of embroidering a small border around the neck on a cream tunic. later thought that this combination was too common and discarded it and bought a plain brown[?] mangalagiri cotton.

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The idea of small border around the neckline remained. The neck pattern with kutch motif evolved-

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The embroidery on my next post…