Colorful Headwrap African Lady Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Tall elegant portrait of a Black lady in a wrapped scarf-style headwrap built from bold ribbon stripes. Orange yellow blue and red ribbons wind across the wrap with thick black outlines between each panel, peach-cream highlights catch the top folds. Her long graceful neck and shoulders bring the whole portrait into a fashion-poster proportion, a large gold hoop earring sits at the jaw, and twisted hair detail peeks out behind the ear.

Eleven colours run through 10 colour changes. Stitch range is dense, starting at 39,046 on the smallest 5.51-inch width and running up to 55,193 on the largest 7.51-inch. Only 3 sizes here because the detail does not scale down well below five inches. Density sits high at 1265 so youre dealing with a bunch of dense stripe satin that needs proper underlay and a firm hooping setup. Ive digitised it in industry-grade software with directional fill on each stripe panel so the ribbon folds read as folds not flat blocks of colour.

One customer ordered the 7-in width max version last summer for a centrepiece embroidery hoop sold at her gallery booth and it became her bestseller for the season. She mounted it in a 10-inch wood frame on cream linen and said the regal feel of the portrait lifted the whole booth display.

Stitch this on cream, oatmeal, tan, sage or charcoal linen where the warm orange ribbon and red panels both read with proper saturation, its where this design shines. Skip black backgrounds for this one, the dark outlines just blur into the ground fabric. Hoop with heavy cutaway under linen and add a layer of tearaway on top during stitching to keep the satin from puckering. Run the machine at a slower speed because the high colour count and dense stitching can stress thread tension on faster runs, dont rush it. Pop fresh sharp needles in before you start, blunt needles tear into the dense stripe fills.