Cross Stitch Pattern List

Anderson-Benton

Sophie Gengembre Anderson

Take the Fair Face of Woman
A fairy in a gossamer gown with iridescent wings and curling blond hair, crowned with butterflies and holding a jeweled pouch.

Take the Fair Face of Woman,
and Gently Suspending,
With Butterflies, Flowers, and Jewels Attending,
Thus Your Fairy is Made
of Most Beautiful Things. - Charles Ede.

See AND001-L for a larger version (more stitches, more detail) of this pattern. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1869)

Take the Fair Face of Woman (larger)
A fairy in a gossamer gown with iridescent wings and curling blond hair, crowned with butterflies and holding a jeweled pouch.

Take the Fair Face of Woman,
and Gently Suspending,
With Butterflies, Flowers, and Jewels Attending,
Thus Your Fairy is Made
of Most Beautiful Things. - Charles Ede.

See AND001 for a smaller version (fewer stitches, slightly less detail) of this pattern. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1869)

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Spring
A Renaissance "man" composed entirely from spring flowers and leaves. Though he appears realistic at a glance, his coat is made of lettuce, violet leaves, and other greens; his ruff is made of white flowers; his cheeks are roses; his lips are cherries, and so on. He is one of four seasons. We also offer Summer, Autumn, and Winter. (1573)

Summer
A Renaissance "man" composed entirely from summer fruits, vegetables, wheat, and leaves. Though he is somewhat realistic at a glance, his coat is made of wheat, his nose is a cucumber, his cheek is a peach, his hat includes melons, eggplant an ear of corn, cherries, raspberries, figs, onions, and their associated leaves, and his teeth are peas in a pod. He is one of four seasons: we also offer Spring, Autumn, and Winter. (1573)

Autumn
A Renaissance "man" composed entirely from autumn fruits, vegetables, grains, and leaves. Though he seems realistic at a glance, his coat is made of barrel staves, his nose is a potato, his chin is a pomegranite, his mustache is a chestnut burr, his hair is bunches of grapes, his hat is a pumpkin, his beard is millet, his ear is a mushroom, and so on. He is one of four seasons: we also offer Spring, Summer, and Winter. (1573)

Winter
A Renaissance "man" composed entirely of winter plants. Though he seems fairly realistic at a glance, his head and neck are a gnarled and broken tree, with broken branches forming his ear and nose. The old man's coat is made from woven straw, a pair of lemons with their leaves make his cravat, his lips are bracket fungus, and the bare branches of the tree and ivy represent his balding head. He is one of four seasons: we also offer Spring, Summer, and Autumn. (1573)

Margaret Armstrong

Echinocereus polyacanthus
A botanical print of a barrel "hedgehog" cactus with red flowers from a guide to wildflowers. The background is not stitched, and the pattern is designed for white fabric. (1915)

John James Audubon

Columbian Hummingbird
Columbian hummingbirds (now known as Anna's hummingbirds) with pink hibiscus. Designed to show the behavior as well as the appearance of the birds, the print shows the hummingbirds gathering nectar from the flowers, flying, perching, and a female sitting on its nest. The background is not stitched, and the pattern is designed for white fabric. See AUD002-D for a chart of a portion of this painting. (c. 1830)

Columbian Hummingbird (detail)
A Columbian hummingbird (now known as Anna's hummingbirds) with a pink hibiscus flower and a few leaves, buds, and part of a stem. This is a detail from the full painting, which we also offer. The background is not stitched, and the pattern is designed for white fabric. (c. 1830)

Brown Pelican
A brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) in breeding plumage perching on a lichen-encrusted red mangrove branch. The state bird of Louisiana, the brown pelican can be found throughout southern and western coastal areas. The background is not stitched, and the pattern is designed for white fabric. (about 1830)

White-Headed Eagle
A bald eagle perched on a rock, his talons gripping a catfish, against a vague stormy background. The white area around the design is not stitched, and the pattern is designed for white fabric. (1828)

Snowy Owl
A pair of snowy owls perched on a burned snag. All the details of their feathers are shown, including their plumed feet. Behind them is a dark blue cloud with a couple of openings that admit some moonlight. (1831)

Black-Crowned Night Heron
A pair of black-crowned night herons at the water's edge in a grassy marsh. The beplumed male is about to snap up a small frog, while the female stands on one leg in a likely nesting spot. This piece is solidly stitched. (1835)

Charles Burton Barber

A Special Pleader
A tearful small girl with blond hair and a white dress standing resentfully in the corner, her doll on the floor nearby. A collie, distressed by his mistress' unhappiness, looks about for someone to help. Behind the dog is a curtained doorway, through which can be seen a spinet with music on the music stand and a window. (1893)

James Bard

Glen Cove
The majestic Glen Cove, a paddle-wheeler, steams along a lake with low hills in the background, with its flags flying and smokestacks trailing black smoke. The rigging and galleries are all shown in detail. (1855)

Frederic Bazille

The Pink Dress
A woman in a pink-and-white striped dress with a black cap and black apron sitting on a shady lichen-encrusted stone wall overlooking a village where the stone buildings glow in the sun. Also known as "View of Castelnau-le-Lez, Herault". (Impressionist, 1864)

William Holbrook Beard

Dancing Bears
A fanciful pair of bears dancing in a forest glade while two other bears look on. Beard was a very popular animal painter, especially favoring bears. He sometimes depicted animals realistically, but often his works were satires on human behavior. (c. 1885)

Aubrey Beardsley

Smithers' Catalogue of Rare Books
A young woman in a ruffled gown and low-cut jacket and a flowered hat, seated on an elegant striped couch reading a small book. A cockatoo on an ornate perch near an ornate column watches her. The background and white sections (about two-thirds the total area) are not stitched; use white fabric. (Art Nouveau, 1896)

Dragon
A fanciful pen-and-ink drawing of a dragon with fringed wings and horns, curly tendrils, and scaly ears and feet. The background and white sections (about half the total area) are not stitched; use white fabric. (Art Nouveau, about 1895)

Thomas Hart Benton

Cradling Wheat
Three men and a boy harvesting wheat by hand on a sunny summer day on a hillside. The wheatfield is bordered by a few stray wildflowers and bands of trees. They are using cradles and scythes to gather and cut the wheat, which is then tied into shocks and stacked. This method of harvesting wheat had been almost completely replaced by machinery by the time the picture was painted (1938).

The Sheepherder
A horseman drives a flock of sheep down from their summer pasture in the high mountain meadows. There is already some snow among the highest peaks, and the aspens are showing their bright fall colors among the somber pines. (American Regionalism, 1960)

Portrait of a Musician
A black jazz bassist in a Kansas City nightclub. He is nattily dressed in a blue blazer, white trousers, and a fancy yellow and black necktie, and gazes down at the gleaming string bass in tranquil concentration. (American Regionalism, 1949)

The Lord is My Shepherd
An elderly couple shares a meager meal at a small round table. The white-haired old woman wears a faded yellow dress and has the gnarled fingers of a lifetime of hard work. She is watching the old man, dressed in a blue jacket over a yellow shirt, who gazes into the distance. They seem contented in their faith, expressed by the Bible verse framed on the wall behind them. (American Regionalism, 1926)

The Cotton Picker
A family of black sharecroppers in the Depression-era South harvesting their cotton crop. In the foreground a young man in an orange T-shirt and blue jeans gathers cotton. A man is lifting a cotton bag up to a primitive crane to load the cotton into the wagon standing under a blasted live oak. A boy is dragging his cotton sack to the wagon as a woman stands by with her bag. The fields behind them shimmer in the heat. (American Regionalism, 1943-4)

The Kentuckian
A Kentucky backwoodsman and his son and dog leaving the Kentucky hills to escape from too much civilization and a family feud. The man and boy are dressed in fringed deerskin suits, moccasins, and knit caps. The man carries a rifle, ammunition pouch and powder flask, and a bedroll, while the boy carries their prized hunting horn. (American Regionalism, 1954)

The Hailstorm
The beginning of a violent storm with a close lightning strike, roiling black clouds with an eery yellow-green light showing through, and hail starting to fall. One man plowing is struggling to control the frightened mule while another man runs for the shelter of a lean-to. (American Regionalist, 1940)