I want to thank my friends in Russia for providing the original scans.
I want to thank my very good friend Sandra Rose from Canada for charting this booklet for us. Her flickr Album
I want to thank Valérie bleudecroix for providing the Easy Cross files
книга съ узорами Book with Patterns
к. герке K. Gerko
мануфактура вышивокъ Manufacture Embroidery
рига и митавасс Riga and Mitava (Jelgava after 1917)
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I know this is a Russian book, but some of these letters look like Greek letters. The title, in English letters is kenthma--I think. DMC has a series of Greek pamphlets with the same word on them.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for these marvelous letters!
I'm having difficulty opening these. They're beautiful! I have the PCStitch Pattern Viewer. Do I need the full version to view these, or am I doing something wrong? Thank you!
ReplyDeleteCyrillic is similar in appearance to Greek and English, but the pronunciation's sometimes different; that word's actually 'kniga' (book), with the k pronounced, not silent. Thank you for sharing these; it's really neat to see the same designs translated into other alphabets, especially since some of the letters in these charts got phased out during the Soviet Revolution and aren't used any more!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ramzi. It was great to be able to open these up in JPG without using programs I don't have. They sure are lovely.
ReplyDeleteAlice
The Russian letters look similar to Greek, because the Cyrillic alphabet is based on the Greek alphabet.
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Ramzi, thank you so much for these letters! I'm from Russia and I'm very glad to see them here. Thanks again!
ReplyDeleteI'm suprise to see that out of france, it exist old liflets.
ReplyDeleteDon't be afraid, it's reall russian letters. It's not greek. It's russian. I'm russian. Some greek letters and greek letters look similar.Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThank you for these beautiful alphabets. Through my new daughter-in-law, I gained a russian family, so thanks to you, I will be able to stitch nice patterns for them in Russian!
ReplyDeleteFabienne
I appreciate these wonderful patterns, that you have taken the time to share.
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Lena
This is wonderland !! I feel like tex Avery's wolf...
ReplyDeleteMerci énormément de faire partager cette passion qui est aussi la mienne.
ReplyDeleteDominique
It is normal that somes of de letters look like greek's letters. The Cyrillic alphabeth was made by the Saint Cyril ans Method of Salonic (in the actuel Greece) and they made it of the greek's alphabeth.
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Lovely alphabets... are you sure it's Russian, or is it Ukranian? Russian doesn't have an "I" that looks like our latin I. Ukranian does, however.
ReplyDeleteThank you soooo much for posting these wonderful patterns for us! much appreciated x x x
ReplyDeleteБлагодарю!
ReplyDeleteTo Measi: These are pre-revolutionary designs that include the letter 'i' and yat'. I, i were current in Russian until the "spelling reforms" of 1917.
ReplyDeleteHi, I'm Russian, read all the comments. I was shocked by the fact that people think that the Russian alphabet is based on the Greek alphabet. For the record I want to say that the Russian alphabet originated earlier than the Greek and Latin, he was transformed from the runes. Archaeological finds confirm that the Russian language there was at least 40,000 years before Christ, and that only material evidence. Learn the history of our planet ladies and gentlemen. sorry for my english.
ReplyDeletemerci bcp SISSI (france) de pouvoir constater que cette passion est ...internationale...!!
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MERCI!
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Ramzi
Thank you for sharing the Cyrillic embroidery patterns. I am much obliged!
ReplyDeleteWonderful site!
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ReplyDeleteSpasibo from Japan! Arigato~.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter is a half Russian Japanese. She is stitching Cheburashka in her homemaking class at school. She added "Cheburashka" in Russian. It looks really neat.