Description
Over seven years ago I released my design “Bless This House”, and I felt it was time to re-draw and slightly update this pattern.
Inspiration for the original design came to my exposure to Pennsylvania Dutch Fraktur art – an art form created in the 17th and 18th centuries in Northern America, having its roots in Germanic folk art that was brought over by early European settlers.
The name Pennsylvania Dutch is a misnomer, as they weren’t actually Dutch, but from the Alsace region of Germany & Switzerland. These settlers kept their language and many of their old ways when making North America their home. Their language, Deutsch (German) was falsely interpreted to be Dutch – and the name has stuck ever since.
The word Fraktur refers to the style of writing in those artworks, as they illustrated their documents with a fractured, pointy, gothic letter. In this pattern, I used the long S, which looks very similar to the letter f to modern readers!
On this design, you find a decorative pot with carnations, an old symbol for divine love. Perched atop this bouquet is a striped, crowned bird. A decorative band frames the work to the bottom.
The pattern measures 186 crosses in height by 131 crosses in width. Stitched over two threads on 32 count linen, it would measure approximately 11 5/8” by 8 1/4” (29.5 by 21cm).
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