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A single eight-point star in madder red on undyed linen cream. Every stitch is enlarged into a bold square tile with its cross cut into it, and the counted holes of the linen show between.
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One Star

No. 1 of 20 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeA single eight-point star in madder red on undyed linen cream. Every stitch is enlarged into a bold square tile with its cross cut into it, and the counted holes of the linen show between.

What it meansTatreez is Palestinian cross-stitch embroidery, traditionally worked by women on the thobe, the long embroidered dress, with motifs and colours that vary from region to region. The eight-point star is one of its most widespread motifs, built from petals on the axes and on the diagonals.

Where it worksOne motif at poster scale, so the logic of the stitch becomes the whole image. A quiet, graphic piece in two reds and cream that holds a wall on its own.

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A-series · 7023 × 9933 pxA5 · A4 · A3 · A2 · A1

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A star held taut in a wooden embroidery hoop with a brass screw clamp. The madder outline is worked, the indigo fill is coming down from the top, the rest is marked in pencil, and the working thread runs across the ring and off the sheet.The HoopNo. 2
A full chest panel on a dark dress ground. A double frame with star-filled corners holds bands of hooked zigzags and chains of small diamonds around a diamond medallion with a star at its heart, with borders of gold diamonds above and below.QabbehNo. 3
Border bands stacked edge to edge on linen cream: stepped teeth, running stars, S-hooks, cypress rows, zigzags, chains of diamonds and chevrons. Single lines of stitch rule each band off from the next.BandsNo. 4
Twenty motifs in madder and dark madder on undyed linen with its counted holes, ruled into a grid by a running stitch. Stars, cypresses, diamonds, chevrons and small all-over fillings each get their own square.SamplerNo. 5
The whole sheet is worked in madder cross-stitch except one large eight-point star, left as bare linen and traced by a single darker row of stitch. A small star worked in outline marks its centre.Linen ShowsNo. 6
One small star repeated across an indigo field, its thread shifting from madder to rose, saffron, gold and pale gold as it descends. The change happens motif by motif, never blended.Thread GradientNo. 7
Single lines of madder stitch run diagonally across linen to form a lattice of diamonds, each holding an eight-point star in indigo or gold with a small square heart.Diamond LatticeNo. 8
One eight-point star enlarged until each of its stitches holds a small star of its own. Madder sits at the edges, indigo within and gold at the heart, with a single stitch marking every empty cell of the linen.Star of StarsNo. 9

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