Danish Cross-Stitch Zodiac Samplers (Dover Needlework) [Paperback]

Jana Hauschild (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1980 | Series: Dover Needlework

Appropriate signs and symbols, plus wide variety of motifs: floral borders, alphabets, birds, more. 12 charts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications (October 1, 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486240320
• ISBN-13: 978-0486240329
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,552,319 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 12 well-done samplers, February 23, 2012

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Jane in Milwaukee "Avid stitcher" (Milwaukee, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Danish Cross-Stitch Zodiac Samplers (Dover Needlework) (Paperback)

I don't necessarily like the over-all style of these samplers but they are quite good in personalization, complexity, and number of motifs for each sign of the zodiac. The outer borders are all flowers of the month which is nice. I would make it more apparent that it involves the zodiac, however: only the depiction of the sign and then the Greek letter of each sign appear at the top and the bottom in the border. These are not very pronounced and none of the samplers states what the sign is in writing. Also, while some of the samplers depict certain traits assoicated with a given sign, most of the samplers include motifs for the month rather than the year of the zodiac.

That said, it's fascinating to see this prolific author, Jana Hauschild Lindberg, using her own language in the works. The Danish alphabet has 2 more letters than ours and all the wording is in Danish. Perhaps the best part of this set of samplers is the variety of alphabet fonts that you can mix and match: for example, some show just capital letters whereas others also have small caps + numbers. Nice touch. I have added to Images above the color pictures of all the samplers plus one sampler enlarged so you can make out more detail.