Fragment from a hand-painted charted pattern, featuring a fanciful multicolor bird. Modern graph with DMC color key included. Suitable for cross-stitch, needlepoint, or Berlin woolwork.
Handpainted embroidery pattern showing a black chantilly lace ribbon with four flowers.
Partial Berlin woolwork sampler
Photo of the end piece of an antique Berlin woolwork sampler. Assorted small motifs (florals, butterflies, house, guitar, key, sword, cross, anchor, crown, parrot, and more). Accompanied by modern chart in color. Suitable also for needlepoint, cross-stitch, or beading.
4 Berlin pattern fragments, 2 abstract and 2 flowered borders
Four border designs, each from a fragment of a Berlin woolwork handpainted pattern.
Hand painted, multicolor charted geometric design intended for Berlin woolwork. Rectangle with side borders, center motif and dramatic ends. Also suitable for cross-stitch and beading. Would make a great petit point rug for a dollhouse.
Handpainted Berlin woolwork pattern 2
Multicolor charted all-over design of overlapping and joined square motifs. Primarily browns and blues, with some red and yellow accents. Intended for Berlin woolwork, can also be used for needlepoint, beading, and cross-stitch. Handpainted original plus modern recharting and DMC color key.
Small and simple Berlin woolwork embroidery in pastel colors.
Berlin woolwork sampler fragments
Artifact photos of four small multicolor Berlin woolwork fragments, possibly detached from a single (now lost) woolwork sampler, or at least by the same hand (the yarns and colors used on the four are identical). Three geometric borders, one coil ope twist border, and one all-over ground design. Photos plus one modern recharting of all designs presented, with DMC color key. Also suitable for needlepoint, cross-stitch, or beading.
Berlin woolwork design in the “jewelled” style, for a purse. A handpainted design definitely 19thC.
Handpainted Berlin woolwork pattern
Multicolor chart for a small square design of 70×70 units, floral spray inside an asymmetrical border. Suitable for Berlin woolwork, needlepoint, or cross-stitch.
A simple embroidery pattern, depending for its effect mainly on the chosen colors. Nice curly outline gives a lively effect. This pattern is also present on a band sampler in the Victoria and Albert museum collection, and that sampler is dated 1860-1870.
Charted multicolor design for a spray of flowers. Suitable for cross-stitch, Berlin woolwork, needlepoint, beading. DMC color key included.
Artifact photo of a lovely beaded tray, with a central hexagonal motif and rose motifs at the sides. Close-ups clearly show combo of cross stitch and beads stitched on penelope canvas. Includes modern charting and DMC color key equivalents for stitching and beads.
A symbol chart printed in the German magazine Der Bazar, for a slipper. Abstract pattern in green and red shades on a black background.
Antique large beadwork panel floral design small white glass beads on tapestry
Artifact photo, plus modern recharting and DMC color key. Beadwork on tapestry canvas, with a red stitched center surrounded by white lilies or convulvulus flowers, and a green outer ground. The beadwork is mainly carried out in white, with dark grey beads to show the outlines and detailing. The piece measures 15.5 x 16.5 inches.
Th. Wilk Meister Antique Berlin Woolwork Pattern Roses
Handpainted multicolor charted design for a large floral bouquet with roses and pansies, mostly in pinks, greens, purples and white. Intended for Berlin woolwork, can also be used for cross-stitch, needlepoint, or beading. Original plus modern recharting and DMC color key only.
Hertz & Wegener BERLIN WOOL WORK pattern 1860s
Charted multicolor design for four narrow geometric borders (9 to 17 stitches wide). Striking use of garnet, green, gold and yellow. Includes modern recharting and DMC color key. Design intended for Berlin woolwork, can also be used for needlepoint, cross-stitch, and beading.