• 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: 14 inches (196 Stitches) by 14 inches (196 Stitches) when stitched on 14 Grid/Count Fabric

This chart was inspired by the illustrations of Butterflies. Butterflies have appeared in art from 3500 years ago in ancient Egypt. In the ancient Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan, the brilliantly colored image of the butterfly was carved into many temples, buildings, jewelry, and emblazoned on incense burners. The butterfly was sometimes depicted with the maw of a jaguar, and some species were the reincarnations of the souls of dead warriors. The close association of butterflies with fire and warfare persisted into the Aztec civilization; evidence of similar jaguar-butterfly images has been found among the Zapotec and Maya civilizations. Butterflies are widely used in objects of art and jewelry: mounted in frames, embedded in resin, displayed in bottles, laminated in paper, and used in some mixed media artworks and furnishings. The Norwegian naturalist Kjell Sandved compiled a photographic Butterfly Alphabet containing all 26 letters and the numerals 0 to 9 from the wings of butterflies.