Scarlet Letter Flowers Cross Stitch

A Parrot, A Leopard, A Lion - Cross Stitch Pattern

$28.00 $2632

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

Man Dogs and Deer - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$35.00 $3289

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

Wisdom and Innocence Bell Pull - Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$20.00 $1889

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

Spot Motif Embroidered Picture 1640 Cross Stitch Pattern

by Scarlet Letter

$33.00 $3099

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