In many areas women still carry on their traditional embroidery skills, despite the very easy access to modern, machine decorated textiles. In some cultures, the motifs used extend way back through the mists of time and illustrate characters in their mythologies or their religious beliefs.

We have travelled across the continents and back through time to bring you many of these colourful motifs in our Travellers Tales Cross Stitch Kits, which have been designed to give hours of pleasurable stitching to modern embroiderers. Many of these motifs were originally stitched in cross-stitch, others have been translated into cross-stitch or other similar counted stitches.

In each of these kits we have assembled several traditional motifs and arranged them into attractive, vibrantly coloured samplers, which can be made up into cushions, bags or mounted as pictures, bookmarks or mini wall hangings to decorate the walls of any home and beautiful needle cases, lovely scissor cases and scissor keepers, pretty trinket boxes, coasters, greetings cards and spectacle cases which would make useful and treasured gifts and heirlooms.