Scarlet Letter Flowers Cross Stitch Patterns

This Scottish sampler features a number of stylistic devices seen on other Scottish samplers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries including the intense color palette with an emphasis on reds and greens and the arcaded pansy band in the upper third.

It has been densely stitched in a... Read more about Mary McCulloch 1763 - Cross Stitch Pattern

This extraordinary piece of seventeenth century needlework was originally executed with fine silks on a linen ground, in tent stitch, and is composed of many different slips" or spot motifs, cleverly fitted together. Many of these motifs have symbolic and/or heraldic significance, and they can... Read more about Spot Motif Embroidered Picture 1640 Cross Stitch Pattern

Note from the designer - "This design was inspired by an early eighteenth century English picture executed in tent stitch." The designs features a lion, a leopard and a parrot surrounded by bright flowers.

The design is stitched over one thread on 35 Ct. linen. It uses cross... Read more about A Parrot, A Leopard, A Lion - Cross Stitch Pattern

In the early eighteenth century samplers began to evolve from long vertical bands into more rectangular shapes. They began to incorporate more pictorial and scenic images and scenes such as those found on seventeenth century canvas and stumpwork pictures. Alphabets, numerals and verses prevailed but... Read more about Mary Hammand 1732 - Cross Stitch Pattern

Flora and fauna were highly celebrated in nearly all 17th and 18th century pictorial embroideries. Executed entirely in cross or tent (half cross) stitches, the embroidered pictures embellished cushions and furniture and reflected a changing attitude toward domestic comforts, by serving to brighten... Read more about Man Dogs and Deer - Cross Stitch Pattern

The canvaswork piece from which this bell pull was derived is a book cover, and dates to the first quarter of the 17th century. square tent stitched vignettes, reproduced here in the panels of the bell pull covered the book's spine vertically. It seems appropriate that the allegorical figures of... Read more about Wisdom and Innocence Bell Pull - Cross Stitch Pattern