The Emperor - Cushion Kit Cross Stitch Kits and four 7cm diametre cardboard

and four 7cm diametre cardboard discs to mount the ladies portraits

Garden Symphony Zipped folio featuring colorful Jacobean-style flowers and leaves worked on a dark navy background

This ninth fashion show comes straight out of the note-book of a top designer and reminds us that an evening dress will always truly make us the belle of the ball

There are enough DMC threads included in the kit to complete the design

By Guiliana Buonpadre

The Emperor - Cushion Kit Cross Stitch Kits and four 7cm diametre cardboardThe fabrics decorating the Emperors small bedroom at Fontainebleau were considered furnishings in their own right. He had originally ordered them for the Ambassadors Room in the Chteau de Saint Cloud (destroyed during the war of 1870). Designed by Jean Franois Bony and executed by Camille Pernon, it is thus described: a flecked prune velvet base teeming with sprigs of flowers and bay leaves. Napolon and Josphine played an important part in reviving