• 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/grid fabric and DMC Cotton Floss.
• Finished Size is: 16 inches (224 Stitches) by 16 inches (224 Stitches) when stitched on 14 Grid/Count Fabric.

This Pattern was inspired by the work of Hans Christiansen (1866-1945). Christiansen was a German craftsman and painter, and one of the founders of the Darmstadt artist colony. He is considered one of the main exponents of German Jugendstil. Christiansen's artisan and graphic works had a significant influence on the art of the time. The versatile work of the artist reflects the central theme of a complete renewal of style through a synthesis of art and life like no other.

Jugendstil is an artistic style that arose in Germany about the mid-1890s and continued through the first decade of the 20th century, deriving its name from the Munich magazine Die Jugend, which featured Art Nouveau designs. Two phases can be discerned in Jugendstil: the early one, before 1900, that is mainly floral in character and rooted in English Art Nouveau and Japanese applied arts and prints; and a later, more abstract phase, growing out of the Viennese work of the Belgian-born architect and designer Henry van de Velde.