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Cross Stitching is very relaxingandconcentrating hobby. The process of stitching really couldraiseyour spirits when you see your work transform from one stitchtothe whole picture. And it is really exiting to lookthroughdifferent patterns and choose your future work. Now you canfindplenty different patterns and styles. You can make a reallybigpictures for the thousand of stitches or nice small pictureswhichyou can hang all over your place or give them as a gift toyourfamily and friends. But is Cross Stitch Patterns always werethesame as now?

Cross Stitching exits for a really long time and itchangedthrough out years. Years ago girls in small villages startedcrossstitching as young as five years old and did it all theirlife. Butit wasn't just a hobby for them at that time. Theystitched notonly for their home to make it nice but also they crossstitchtheir clothes to show everyone how they mastered this craft.Insome villages there were days when the girls all over thevillageshowed up in clothes they stitched and people could choosewhichone were the best master. Sometimes young boys chose a girlsformarriage to look through her work. So stitching plaid a big partingirls life.

There were a lot of cross stitch patterns and designs inoldtimes but it wasn't just a regular patterns, all patterns hadsomemeaning and for different purpose people made differentdesigns.For example, weddings always were rich in cross stitchdesignswhich express wishes of long and happy life fornewly-married.Patterns in different places had different meaningsbut usually olddesigns contained lots of birds (represents beautyand freedom atsome nations), trees and sun(usually representfertility), housesand boats (at some cultures represent wealth).Sometimes thispatterns were pretty easy to make but notmeaningless. It meansthat when our ancestors stitched a cloths forparticular personthey could say who this person was: how old andhow rich he/shewas, what rank in society he/she has, how wisehe/she was and soon. Can you imagine how every big or smallcelebration peopledressed up in a wonderful cloths with stitchingfrom top to bottomand from this stitching you can easily fined outwhat day theycelebrate, what they represent and who they are.

Cross Stitching has a great history and some people still finditinteresting to make old style designs. All this designs lookreallyantique, as something forgotten a long time ago but stillalive andmeaningful. But if you know the route of each CrossStitch Patternyour work won't be just a craft, it will be amessage foreveryone.