Description:

We are pleased to offer Orenco Originals Counted Cross Stitch Chart, Pattern, Graph

Cineraria Flowers by Scottish Artist Mabel Royds Counted Cross Stitch Pattern

Counted Cross Stitch Chart Specifics:

· Size: 14 inches (196 stitches) by 11 inches (154 stitches)

· Fabric Size: This chart is designed for 14 count fabric

· Fabric Color: We suggest using ivory or white fabric

· Thread: This chart is designed for DMC Cotton Floss

· # Floss Colors: This chart calls for 40 colors

Note to Stitchers: You will receive a chart that is of the entire image including the background. You can stitch the background or stitch on your choice of a 14-count solid cloth and create a raised embossed effect.

***This is NOT a Kit-Purchase for graph-pattern-chart only***

What inspired this Chart-Pattern:

This chart was inspired by the artwork of Mabel Royds. Mabel Royds, 1874–1941, was an English artist best known for her woodcuts. Despite the inspirations from Royds’ extensive travel through other countries, she mainly enjoyed depicting the simple things that surrounded her home: children growing up, neighborhood animals, and flowers in bloom. Royds found a great interest in the subject in the many varieties of flowers depicted them in dazzling colors. Whether she was at home or abroad, Royds’ subjects are centered on the often-over-looked moments of everyday life.

Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts. Areas that the artist cuts away carry no ink, while characters or images at surface level carry the ink to produce the print. The block is cut along the wood grain (unlike wood engraving, where the block is cut in the end-grain). The surface is covered with ink by rolling over the surface with an ink-covered roller (brayer), leaving ink upon the flat surface but not in the non-printing areas.