This bookmark comes from a Gothic Flora series worked on a black background: a crescent moon over moth wings and an open hand, a raven perched among poppies, a skull rising through poppies and bone-white blossoms, and a wolf silhouetted beneath the moon each appear across the coordinating designs, all bordered with fine gold-tan linework and deep red poppy blooms.
Why this kit: a moody, gothic color story of black, bone-white, and deep red that stands out from typical pastel florals; recurring motifs - moon, raven, skull, wolf - layered with botanical detail; fine linework that gives the design real depth at a small scale.
Kit includes a pre-printed (pre-stamped) bookmark-format Aida fabric, floss in the required DMC-coded colours, a needle, and instructions.
The design is worked like any counted cross stitch piece: following the color chart and symbol key, placing each stitch on the marked fabric with the indicated DMC shade, and working section by section - the dark background first, then the poppies and central motif - until finished.
Best suited to a stitcher with some counted cross stitch experience given the fine detail in the linework, this bookmark appeals to fans of gothic, witchy, or dark-academia style.