African Woman Headwrap Silhouette Embroidery Design, Instant Download

The profile here is a solid black silhouette of a woman looking left, and sitting above her head is this substantial wrapped turban that takes up the top third of the design. The wrap uses wide curved bands of colour stacked together, sky blue running along the outer edge, then bright yellow, salmon peach and a section of hot pink closer to the brow. Small circular jewel-like accents sit right where the wrap meets the forehead, stitched in a contrasting colour to pick them out. Its a cleaner, more structured look than a striped fan wrap, more like a rolled and coiled turban you'd see in contemporary afrocentric fashion.

Five colour stops total which keeps the thread change count very manageable. The black silhouette is a single dense fill and the turban bands are wide satin column sections digitised in industry-grade software, each band slightly curved to follow the wrapped shape. At the smallest 4-inch size youre at about 10k stitches, at the full 8-inch the count reaches just over 34k. That density on the larger sizes means you realy want a good cutaway stabiliser underneath, not a tearaway. The curves on those turban bands need a stable base to stitch out without distorting.

A customer messaged me last spring wantin to use this for a series of tote bags for a womens cultural collective she runs. She ordered the 6-in design on cream canvas and got thirteen bags done in a batch. She told me the colour-to-colour registration was clean every time, which pleased me cos these curved satin fills can shift if the hooping isnt firm.

Cream, ivory, or warm white fabric works best and lets all five colours read at full saturation. Avoid yellow or orange grounds because the yellow band in the turban disappears. The 4-inch or 5-inch size works on tee chests, the bigger sizes are better on bags, cushions or jacket backs. Pair with tearaway on lighter garments if youre using the smaller sizes only.

Hoop tightly and slow your machine down a notch on the satin band sections, especially on the curved outer edge of the blue band at the 6-inch and 8-inch sizes. That outer curve is where the stitch density is highest and rushing it can cause pull.