• 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 16 inches (224 Stitches) by 12 inches (168 Stitches).

This pattern was based upon the work of Russian Artist Issachar ber Ryback (1897-1935), born in Yelizavetgrad Russia in 1897. He attended the Art Academy in Kiev from 1911-1916 and was an important contributor to the Kiev art scene until 1921 when he moved to Berlin where he participated in the historically important Berlin Secession exhibition. He initially experimented with Cubism and then began painting Jewish subject matter in the 1920s when critics and collectors began to appreciate his analytic Cubism and recognize his importance in the Russian vanguard movement. He was invited back to Moscow in 1925 to design costumes for the Moscow Theatre, before moving to Paris in 1926. In Paris he adopted a new style of Realism, portraying Russian Jewish "shtetl" life, bringing out the forceful, distinctive character of his Yiddish-speaking subjects without resorting to sentimentalism. Much of his collection was donated for the establishment of the Ryback Museum of Bat Yam in Israel. Ryback was an member of the Russian Jewish, modernist movement that included Lissitsky, Altman, Aronson and Chagall, all of whom were seeking to revitalize Jewish art during a period which saw the cultural efflorescence of Yiddish literature, music, theater, and art.