cross stitch stuff

“Smokey Mountain Cats” by Pegasus Original

Spanish pattern

for cross stitching

I’m trying to make an embroidered altar cloth for all of the pagan celebrations of this year. They’re inspired and based on traditional German cross stitch patterns. So here’s my design for Yule / Winter Solstice (feel free to use it yourself :) ):

I'm probably gonna embroider it on a dark blue or dark purple fabric to symbolize the dark season

Pattern:

the pattern is from a German pattern book from 1760

Tirazain is a digital repository of the art and skill of Palestinian embroidery.

Over 1,000 high resolution stitch patterns available to search by number of colors used, themes, origin.

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Tirazain is a digital archive of Palestinian weaving and patterns (or tatreez, التطريز, embroidery) for free use. At this time when there's so much death and loss happening in Gaza and beyond, it gladdened me to find people storing the intangible and cultural so that it might survive.