Hand Embroidered Red Cardinal Brooch Pin

A cardinal against a bare winter branch is one of the few sights that can stop you at a kitchen window, and this one carries all of that startling red — crest raised, black mask sharp around the beak, wings layered in every shade from crimson to rose.

Trovelore's artisans build the piece entirely by hand, laying rows of red bugle beads along the wing so the feathers overlap the way real ones do, working the crest and breast in dense scarlet thread, setting the black mask and single bright eye in fine seed beads, and shaping the slim legs and feet in pale beaded wire.

At approximately 2 inches in length, it pins neatly to a wool coat, scarf, or lapel and arrives in its own gift box — a bird that means winter to most people and looks just as good in June.