Main Bead Embroidery Kit Eternal calling

“Eternal calling” shows two wolves in a winter forest: one stands with its head raised, howling, the other beside it, turned to the side. The scene is tense and calm at once, like winter silence itself.

What the picture shows

The front wolf is lighter, ash-and-rust coloured, with an open mouth and white underfur on the chest; the howling one is darker, brown and umber, with a clear pale stripe along its back. The fur is worked in long uneven stitches, so it looks ruffled and alive. Around them lies deep snow with blue shadows, frost-laden branches, and in the lower left corner small red berries on a bare bush. To the right a snowy slope opens up with a band of distant forest. The sky and the far plane stay as print on the canvas, while beads cover the animals, the snowy foreground and the branches. Sixteen colours carry both the warm range of the fur and the cool blue half-tones of the snow.

What is in the kit

• Artist canvas with the full-colour pattern printed on it — no chart to follow on a screen
• Czech Preciosa beads, 16 colours
• Beading needles
• Instructions and finishing guide

Specifications

• Finished size: 450×320 mm (17.7×12.5 in)
• Beads: approx. 24,312
• Bead colours: 16
• Difficulty: above average
• Base: artist canvas

The format is horizontal, 450 by 320 mm. With more than twenty-four thousand beads this is one of the densest pieces in the series, so plan your time for it. The picture suits a living room, a study or a country house. Gallery finishing is possible.