Indigo print on yellow tunic-2

The yoke and the neckline worked with mirror outlines-

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Another outline for mirrors were worked with pink and gold zari thread.

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Yoke with large mirrors worked in four strands of blue cotton skein.

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The small mirrors on the neckline were worked in two strands. Light blue cone thread was couched down around the neckline and yoke.

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The yoke placed on the fabric

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The completed tunic.

Indigo print on yellow tunic

The fabric looks different, because I wanted avoid my reflection, flash and light source from the window on the mirrors. This tunic is ideal to be worn with blue jeans or leggings or salwars.

 

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.

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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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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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Blue ikat tunic with lemon green printed sleeves-3

The last few details about the embroidery on this yoke . the tunic had white colour in it , so the some outlines were worked with white thread. I tried open chain stitch on the flower outlines.

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Small mirrors were then attached to the fabric with blue thread.

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The yoke placed over the printed lemon green fabric.

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I found a plain lemon yellow handloom cotton fabric for salwar [Indian style pants] for this tunic top. The whole set was given to the tailor for sewing.
The completed tunic-

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Close up of the yoke on tunic.

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I love this blue and lemon yellow/green combination . I am very fond of the colours of kanjeevaram silk sarees . After buying the blue ikat fabric, the subsequent steps were all because of the kanjeevaram silk saree fever. The inspiration for motif came from ethnic Indian designs. Not much time was employed to work this yoke, and a  very  satisfying project.

 

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.

 

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After completing the stitch samplers of the TAST challenge, I am resuming the details of the embroidery designs on tunics . this tunic fabric is hand woven ikat fabric in blue.

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I don’t have a separate picture of the sleeve fabric. It is pin-tucked fabric in lemon green/yellow block printed with blue floral motifs.
The idea was for a small yoke worked in another fabric of the same blue base.
A simple motif repeat pattern, with round outlines for mirrors.

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The thread colours were picked from the tunic and sleeve fabrics. Anchor cotton skeins were used throughout this embroidery.
Herringbone stitches worked with lemon green thread-

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More details on my next post.

 

Green ikat tunic with multi coloured yoke-5

The embroidery part of the yoke and sleeves are completed on this tunic. The yoke and the lace placed over the tunic fabric looked like this-

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After this ,the tunic went to the hands of the tailor, where the borders on sleeves were attached as I wanted, but when it came to the yoke, he left a gap on the yellow border, which was not as I expected, I had wanted the lace to be attached at the end of the border, just as the empire cut. but……!

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To rectify this , I worked two paisleys on the border on both sides, still this looks more like a tribal dress than a tunic top. LOL! I think these kind of designs will look better on thin or slim figures , which I am definitely not! Though the result was not I expected, the joy of working on this design gave me the contentment. I am waiting for a suitable occasion to wear it !

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If anyone shows interest in the pattern of the yoke and sleeves, I can post it here.

 

Green ikat tunic with multi coloured yoke-3

The sleeves of this tunic had borders in two fabrics. One was the brown fabric, which we have seen so far, another one is yellow fabric.
The outlining of the mirrors was done in cream on this brown fabric. the border with sequins and mirrors stitched with green and orange threads alternatively.

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The details of the border in yellow fabric- pattern with kutch work motifs done in brown thread.

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The same border after working the kutch work motifs in orange thread.

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With green outline in back stitch

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With squares done in red, with green sequins and gold beads.

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The yellow border on yoke on my next post.

 

Green ikat tunic with multi coloured yoke-1

This time around, I wanted to do something new with the tunic yoke. The patterns and embroidery were usual, but I used three fabrics for this embroidery on yoke and sleeves.
The tunic material was woven ikat cotton.

green ikat tunic

For this tunic, the yoke combination was brown, printed orange and yellow. The embroidery was predominantly mirror work and kutch work with some sequins.
First I’ll start with the central yoke, which was done in brown colour fabric. this yoke had kutch work motif , sequins and mirrors. The kutchwork in yellow thread-

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The kutch work motif in green-

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the third motif was  done in orange, the three motifs-

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More  details on my next post.

 

Maroon mirror yoke-3

The outlining of the pattern is done in cream colour cotton skein. The completed outline in chain stitch.

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The embroidery stitch details are completed with this thread. In this picture, the yoke is embellished with mirrors, sequins and red beads.

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The completed tunic with salwar-

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This is a round necked tunic with v-shape in the centre. The pattern was designed accordingly to suit the neck. Maroon is a very common colour in Indian dresses. To have design something unique is always a challenge.