Blue kantha on dark blue tunic-2

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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Green tunic with beads-4

Sequins and beads were added to the outer borders worked in chain stitches.

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The borders are completed and were placed on the tunic .

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The border pattern

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Green tunic with beads-3

Shades of green were worked with cotton skein and metallic thread. And now chain stitches were worked in light green thread on the florals on the pattern.

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Completed with light green thread.

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Small antique gold beads were added on the beads and florals.

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Green tunic with beads-2

After working the straight stitches and chain stitch lines with brown thread , the green on the tunic  fabric was the next thread. Chain stitches were worked with this thread.

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The thread next in line was dark green thread

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Leaves with metallic thread.

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Green tunic with beads-1

I had earlier worked a plain green tunic with zardoai work. I think I am fond of green and gold combination. This green tunic fabric is mangalagiri cotton with stripes.

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The  idea was to work a separate border on a golden yellow fabric for the sleeves and a small yoke pattern on the tunic. Chain stitches were used throughout this project. Antique gold beads and sequins were used. Threads were anchor cotton skeins and metallic.
The width of the borders was 8cms. Since this work was done on yellow fabric, the colours used were brown and green[s].starting with the dark brown colour. This was the colour of the stripes on the tunic fabric.

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green ikat multi coloured yoke-6

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-

green tunic coloured yoke- centre pattern

The borders and the sleeve

green tunci coloured yoke-border pattern

 

Lemon yellow linen tunic -9

I am posting the yoke and sleeve patterns for this tunic. The details of the embroidery are here.

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Being a big pattern , this is another picture-

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Sleeve pattern

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Cream and orange tunic-5

The embellished borders placed over the tunic fabric-

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After this the borders and the tunic fabric were given to the tailor for the final step of the tunic . the sewn tunic-

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The borders on the tunic-

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It is nice change to have just embroidery borders on a tunic instead of yoke. I wear this tunic and scarf with orange/red jeans. The idea to use printed fabric for embroidery border was also very practical. Totally a satisfying experience.
I am posting these details from India,and the tunic and scarf are in Muscat.so the scarf cannot be shown here.

 

Cream and orange tunic-4

The colours used for embroidery on the borders of this tunic are based on the colours on the scarf for which this tunic is designed. The tunic was cream colour ikat cotton, and the next colour was cream on the border. The back stitches in cream thread were worked between the running stitch rows done in green done earlier in this project.

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Variegated cone thread was couched on the outer edges of these borders-

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Bright gold sequins were added on to these borders, completed borders for sleeves and the front edge-

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