Embroidery Materials used:

Navy blue 3mm cording

Navy blue thread

Fray Check

Construction notes: The pattern above was transfered on each of the sleeve oversets using white tranfers paper. I hand-embroidered the cording on top of the design using the couching stitch. Fray Check was used on the ends of the cording where they meet together. I also found it helpful to use Fray Check around the edges of the fabric to stop them from fraying during all the handling of it while embroidering. After I finished all the embroidery I hand-sewed the sleeve oversets onto the actual sleeves.

On the real gown they used two rows of the cording on all the designs. The cording I bought was way too thick so I had to sew only one row of cording onto the sleeves. Doing it this way actually worked out pretty well for it save on the cost of yardage of the cording and I didn't have as much to embroider.