Tapestry Canvas Royal Paris – Un Coin des Paradis

Tapestry Canvas Royal Paris – Un Coin des Paradis is a printed image of many flowers in white and violet colours intertwined in a structure of yellow pillars.

It also appears 4 small white doves and a peacock.

You can embroider this nice design with cotton and wool threads.

Which threads should be used for this craft?

Royal Paris recommends you to use Anchor threads to obtain better results by combining cotton and wool. You can also use Retors Mat or Anchor Mouliné (You need to use twice the amount of Anchor Mouliné, not as Retors Mat).

The colours and the amount of yarns that you will have to use of Anchor threads is:

• Soft Cotton Retors Mat: 1 (x2), 234 (x1), 676 (x1), 678 (x2), 386 (x3), 367 (x3), 369 (x3), 370 (x2), 306 (x1), 803 (x1), 108 (x2), 85 (x3), 97 (x3), 100 (x3), 72 (x2), 129 (x4), 162 (x1), 164 (x1), 260 (x2), 203 (x2), 221 (x4), 683 (x4), 381 (x2), 403 (x3).
• Standed Mouliné: you may choose between the thread explained before or this thread. This one, you will need to double the amount. The colours will be the same numbers explained before.
• Tapisserie Wool Laine (100% wool): 8000 (x2), 9784 (x1), 9674 (x1), 9678 (x2), 8034 (x3), 9486 (x3), 9490 (x3), 9450 (x2), 8136 (x1), 8140 (x1), 8586 (x2), 8486 (x3), 8526 (x3), 8528 (x3), 8424 (x2), 8686 (x4), 8674 (x1), 8794 (x1) 9172 (x2), 8984 (x2), 8966 (x4), 8882 (x4), 9646 (x2), 9800 (x3).

You can also use DMC threads. If you use DMC, you need these products:

• Soft Retors: blanc (x2), 2415 (x1), 2373 (x1), 2168 (x2), 2746 (x3), 2164 (x3), 2765 (x3), 2433 (x2), 2725 (x1), 2766 (x1), 2114 (x2), 2396 (x3), 2395 (x3), 2394 (x3), 2902 (x2), 2799 (x4), 2592 (x1), 2590 (x1), 2472 (x2), 2954 (x2), 2502 (x4), 2129 (x4), 2371 (x2), 2310 (x3).
• Strd Mouliné: B5200 (x5), 762 (x2), 452 (x2), 3861 (x3), 3823 (x6), 842 (x5), 436 (x6), 434 (x4), 783 (x1), 976 (x1), 210 (x4), 3609 (x5), 209 (x6), 327 (x6), 3685 (x3), 3325 (x8), 517 (x1), 3842 (x2), 3053 (x4), 954 (x3), 3815 (x8), 500 (x8), 838 (x3), 310 (x5).

Like Anchor threads, you may choose between Soft Retors and Strd Mouliné.

• DMC Wool Laine: blanc (x3), 2415 (x1), 2373 (x1), 7234 (x2), 7746 (x3), 7179 (x3), 7175 (x4), 7457 (x3), 7971 (x1), 7919 (x1), 7024 (x2), 7151 (x3), 7896 (x4), 7895 (x4), 7218 (x2), 7799 (x5), 7316 (x1), 7306 (x1), 7422 (x3), 7604 (x2), 7956 (x5), 7408 (x5), 7469 (x2), noir (x2).

We recommend you not to wash, dry or iron this product.  

You will find a drawing explanation of how to make the stitches in the back of the tapestry.

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