Swallows and Budding Wild Cherry

Three swallows fly above a cherry branch, a narrow upright sheet with an inscription. A simple chart with 14 threads.

Size

59 × 170 stitches; on 14-count: 10.7 × 30.8 cm, on 18-count: 8.3 × 24.0 cm

Threads

14 DMC colours, full crosses only

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 56944 — the work on the museum site

Licence

Chart — © 2026 Crossette, CC BY 4.0: free to stitch, print and share with a link to crossette.org. The original is in the public domain (CC0); the museum image comes from its open collection.

PDF to print · 218 KB OXS for software · 387 KB

OXS is an open chart format that many cross stitch programs open. The Crossette app opens it too — it’s in development; the beta comes after Apple’s review. Colours on screen and in print are approximate; go by the thread codes.