Diamond embroidery. Ikon

in needlework •  6 years ago  (edited)

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In Ukraine, embroidery has always been popular. Our grandmothers embroidered clothes, bed-clothes, towels, paintings with colored threads. Embroidered blouses or shirts are in demand and now in our country.

Recently I saw another type of embroidery, where they embroider not with thread, but with colored rhinestones.
I decided to try to make an ikon. I ordered a canvas, with a thin layer of glue and rhinestones - diamonds.

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Each diamond has a size of 2.5mm * 2.5mm.
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Diamonds are lined with tweezers or a special stylus.
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Work process: you need to turn the thin parchment back a few cm to open the sticky surface. On the surface there is a scheme and according to this scheme a diamond of the desired color is glued.
The work is laborious, but the result is worth it.

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