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Fashion Show update: Photos of finished pectoral and cartouche

As promised, photos of the beadwork behind the cut

Finished pectoral neckpiece and cartouche The TutBucks logo is an inkjet transfer (you can see the slight color shift at the edges) printed on the Canon 9900, with glass art beads hand-stitched in the 10 dots. All the ornamentation on the pectoral is beadwork.

Another view of the neckpiece and cartouche

Detail of the cartouche here you can see some of the art glass beads accenting the printed design

Another closeup of the cartouche

Pectoral spread out to show off all the beads. The blue concentric rings are cobalt blue aurora-borealis-flashed sead beads, strung onto thread and then machine-couched in place. The green lines are slightly larger green glass (flashed with blue aurora-borealis) beads, hand-stitched in place. The zig-zags are 25mm cobalt blue Czech bugle beads. The round art-glass beads and silver "Phoenician" styled beads are hand-stitched in place. (The beaded fringe was purchased pre-strung and sewn on early in the pectoral construction; look for earlier photos)

Details of beading on Pectoral You can see all the different kinds of beads I used in this closeup

Another detail view of the pectoral beading, no flash You can see the big top center snap and one of the small snaps for attaching the cartouche in the upper left corner