Cross stitch is a form of counted thread embroidery, is from 6 or 7 century BC. It 'was used to decorate household objects with geometric and floral patterns, usually worked in black and red cotton thread on linen. Coptic cross stitch was a tomb in Egypt, where he was found preserved by dry desert climate.
Catherine of Aragon, wife of Henry VIII Spanish first brought to England blackwork. Blackwork is believed to affect theDevelopment of cross-stitch. Catherine of Aragon to the king the same incision shirts.
The most common cross-stitch work, samples, and was usually in the form of a prayer or a proverb. In 1797 school children in an orphanage near Calcutta in Bengal, the task of sewing the longest chapter of the Bible, Psalm 19 given.
Books with cross-stitch patterns were popular in Europe and America during the 17 Century, and that they would function samples. Cross StitchModels are printed as squares blacks or points, which indicates a choice of colors for the embroidery. The first surviving dated sampler was stitched by a young English girl, Jane Bostock in 1598. Jane sampler includes plant and animal motifs, and an alphabet. It is believed to have had reasons Jane should have access to an old book style.
Most cross stitch sewing and even decorate objects such as towels and sheets, but now is more popularDifferent designs and pictures and stitch them on the wall for decoration.
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