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A Russian Carpet, 1903
Worked to a 1903 chart from a Russian magazine, scanned and posted by an unknown source (the chart can also be found here -- https://mathomhouse.typepad.com/bluestocking/2018/10/russian.html)
These are the DMC floss colors used here (1 strand of each, blended), worked on 28-count Monaco --
dark green (in the border, etc.) = 934 + 935
mid-green (the over-painted squares) = 3347 + 3052
light green = 3052 + 3053
light gold/yellow = 3821 + 3822
dark gold = 783 + 3852
red = 400 + 3777
cream = 3033 + 3866
blue = 931 + 932
brown-black = 3371 + 3031
fringe = 3866
Some of the dark-gold should have been more of a golden-salmon shade (e.g., the red-outlined flowers, the non-green "leaves" on the white stripe, etc.)
Finished size 3 5/8 x 5 1/8 in. (9.2 x 13.1 cm)
7 September - 12 October 2018