I'm awfully glad I went with my obsessive impulses to add more beading after this piece was in a small show. It's much more like my original vision.I heavily beaded the halos using sew-on Swarovski crystals, embossed sequins, and czech glass beads.
The frame is covered with a beaded cross hatch that serves to quilt the border. I added more beading to the onion domes using silver and gold lined delicas and faux pearls and more pearls and brass filigree to the penultimate cross (which I know isn't the correct kind of cross for an Orthodox icon but it's my quilt and I can do what I want.) I added two layers of bought beaded fringe to finish it off.
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