Sources
The alphabet is adapted from an Italian Gothic alphabet in the 16th-century German manuscript, Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta. (Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum) The carnation is adapted from an illumination in the 16th-century French Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary. (Washington, Library of Congress, Rosenwald Collection) The rabbits are adapted, from left to right: from a 12th-century Syrian ceramic plate (London, Victoria and Albert Museum); from an illumination in the 14th-century French manuscript, the Cloisters Apocalypse (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 68.174, fol. 22v); from an illumination in the 13th/14th-century English manuscript, the Grey-FitzPayn Hours (Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 242, fol. 29r); from a 15th-century Spanish ceramic plate (New York, Hispanic Society of America, E 578).
Materials and Techniques
You can use any even weave fabric such as Aida cloth or linen. The threads are DMC floss. Only whole cross-stitches are used.
Sizes of finished picture
Design size: 285 stitches wide x 117 stitches tall
on 10-count fabric, 28.7” x 11.9”
on 12-count fabric, 23.92” x 9.92”
on 14-count fabric, 20.5” x 8.5”
on 16-count fabric, 17.94” x 7.44”
on 18-count fabric, 15.94” x 6.61”
See below for required DMC skeins
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Craft Type:Cross Stitch
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Craft Type:Cross Stitch
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Theme:Samplers
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Format:Printed Chart
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Brand:Arelate Studio
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Product Code:ARELATE11
