The story of this yoke starts with this striped cotton fabric.
Thinking all these colours can be used for embroidery on a cream base, a cream cotton fabric was chosen for the tunic. This cream mangalagiri handloom cotton fabric was given to the tailor for marking the front and sleeves.
And a simple border design was embroidered on the sleeves.
The pattern for the same.
The embroidery for this mirror work started with green colour skein. The mirror outlines were worked n chain stitch, the curls were worked in stem stitch and the leaves in leaf stitch.
The second stage was to work the orange colour skein. Chain stitches and buttonhole stitches were worked with this thread.
Next in line was the antique violet colour skein. The triangles around the neck were worked in buttonhole stitches and the second mirror outlines were worked in chain stitch.
The last outline around mirrors were worked in polyester gold colour thread.
The diamond shaped mirrors were outlined with variegated polyester thread.
The remaining chain stitch outlines were worked in yellow colour skein.
The same yellow skein was used for working all the mirrors.
Oval shaped gold bead was the last detail to be worked on this embroidery.
The pattern for this yoke.
The completed tunic.
This was the story of this tunic in 2014. After two and a half years, the same yoke became a part of another tunic. Which will be narrated later.