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.

 

Blue ikat tunic with lemon green printed sleeves-1

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-4

The details of the embroidery done on yellow fabric for the yoke . the border is the same as sleeves except for paisleys.

The border with orange kutch motifs and green paisleys.

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The paisleys and diamond shapes outlined with red thread in back stitch. The rest of the kutch motifs worked with brown thread.

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Chain stitch borders in cream thread, and green sequins attached with gold beads.

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The paisleys are further embellished with antique gold sequins

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The completed yokes and tunic on my next.

 

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-2

Further details of this multi coloured yoke. For this yoke, three fabrics are used. The centre is brown, then a printed fabric in orange , on which embroidery is not done. Then a yellow fabric, where a border pattern is done with sequins.
Continuing with the details on the brown fabric- two lines in chain stitch with yellow thread was done previously along with the kutch work motifs. Two more line are worked in chain stitch with variegated thread.
The mirrors were to be outlined with cream thread, the work is in progress on this picture-

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The next step was to attach the sequins, which is completed in this picture , the mirrors will be stitched later.

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Brown fabric for sleeves-
The same brown fabric is used for sleeves too. The border before attaching the mirrors.

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some more details 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.

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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.

 

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Though I have used a few colours of thread to embroider the pattern, mirrors were the main highlight. The space around the placement of mirrors were embroidered with colours chosen from the printed fabric.
The next colour was peach, for this I chose silk thread instead of cotton skeins. satin stitch, back stitch and stem stitch were worked with this thread.

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After peach silk thread, parrot green colour was used to stitch herringbone filling on the pattern.

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Golden yellow colour cotton skein was used to work, back stitch and chain stitch on the pattern. And  I started the outlines with cream colour cotton skein.

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The last few details  on this embroidered yoke on my next post.

 

Maroon mirror yoke-1

I bought a printed cotton fabric for a tunic, and later thought that , the overall design may be to gaudy for a tunic , and then found plain maroon readymade tunic from a shop and decided to match these two. The printed cotton fabric was made into a salwar [Indian pants]. The tunic set-

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Idea for the yoke design-I wanted to use the colours on the printed fabric on some ethnic Indian pattern. After browsing through to get some inspiration, at last drew this yoke pattern. The idea was to use mirrors and sequins as embellishments on this embroidered yoke. The details of the embroidery-
First colour was medium green, herring bone filling stitches were made with this thread.

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The next colour was yellowish green, chain stitches and back stitches were done with this thread-

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More details on my next post.