• This product is a Digital Download of a COUNTED CROSS STITCH PATTERN. Instructions included.
• This pattern is used to sew and create a cross stitch picture.
• This is NOT a completed product. It is NOT a kit, it is a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. Floss, fabric, and other supplies are NOT INCLUDED.
• After purchasing you can work from this digital pattern on your device or print the pattern on your own printer.
• The pattern consists of a multi-page enlarged chart that is easy to follow as you work.
• This pattern is in Black and White and uses symbols to differentiate the different threads you will use. It is NOT IN COLOR.
• See the detailed product images attached to this listing showing what you will receive and what the pattern looks like.
• Chart/Patterns use up to 40 colors of floss, which YOU must provide.
• This pattern uses Full Stitches only. No half stitches, and no backstitching necessary.
• Charted for 14 count fabric and DMC Cotton Floss. Finished size is 18 inches (252 stitches) by 10 inches (140 stitches).

Henri Rousseau,1844-1910, was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naive or Primitive manner. As a self-taught painter, Henri Rousseau was completely untrained in any established art techniques. He is best known for his childlike jungle scenes. He was good at painting and music as a child but spent most of his life as a customs officer at the outskirts of town. Because of this, he was also referred to as Le Douanier, or The Customs Officer. He started painting seriously at the age of forty and by the time he was 49 he retired from his job to paint full time.

Although the painting establishment laughed and ridiculed his artistic style, he was highly regarded by artists who were outside the establishment, such as Picasso, Jean Hugo, Leger, Beckman, and later, painters of the Surrealist style. He was unaware that he was considered untrained by established painters and believed himself to be a great realist painter.