The pomegranate featured in this border design is sometimes referred to as the forbidden fruit of The Garden of Eden, but in Christian symbolism the fruit, broken or bursting open, represents the fullness of Jesus' suffering and resurrection.
We discovered this pomegranate design in the
Embroidery Pattern Catalogue, a publication offering iron-on embroidery transfers that was published in the mid to late 1800s by the Thomas Brown & Sons company of Manchester, England.
When digitizing for machine embroidery we attempted to stay as true to the original design as possible.
- This design is available for the 4" x 4", 5" x 7", 6.25" x 10.25" and 7.75" x 11.75" hoops.
- The sewn out size for the 4" x 4" hoop is 1.76" W x 2.98" H with 7,533 stitches.
- The sewn out size for the 5" x 7" hoop is 3.64" W x 6.15" H with 23,284 stitches.
- The sewn out size for the 6.25" x 10.25" hoop is 5.61" W x 9.46" H with 59,608 stitches.
- The sewn out size for the 7.75" x 11.75" hoop is 6.80" W x 11.48" H with 84,997 stitches.
- This design has 6 thread colors.
- This design is a continuous or repeating border.
- We recommend this design for experienced embroiderers.
You must have an embroidery machine to utilize our machine embroidery designs. We sell machine embroidery designs as electronic media (software) only. We do not sell embroidered "patches" or hard copy patterns.
