Girl With a Pearl Earring (African-American)

by Johannes Vermeer

Girl With a Pearl Earring (African-American) cross-stitch pattern by Johannes Vermeer (MD size, Low colors, Full DMC palette)

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384 x 480 in 96 colors 184,320 stitches

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Description

Girl with a Pearl Earring is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. It is a tronie of a girl wearing a headscarf and a pearl earring. The painting has been in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague since 1902. In 2006, the Dutch public selected it as the most beautiful painting in the Netherlands. This is re-imagined with an African-American girl in the same style.

This pattern will enable you to reproduce the image using the medium of cross-stitch or diamond painting. The custom charting technology we developed produces the highest quality cross-stitch and diamond-art patterns available with new levels of detail and color matching to accurately reproduce the images in whatever size and color combination you prefer. Not every image will look as good with the lowest colors at extra small size but not every image needs maximum colors at extra large size. We create every combination and provide accurate mockups so you can select the pattern that is right for you.

You can be confident that the pattern you buy from us will produce a piece that you will be proud to hang on your wall or gift to a loved one, to be admired for generations to come.

Patterns are available to download in PDF format immediately after purchase and will also appear in our pattern viewer and tracking application. This is the pattern only and does not include any paper copy or the materials you need to complete the project - you can purchase these from your local crafting store or online supplier of choice and the pattern will detail the number of skeins required based on the material type and stitching style you use.

Color Palette

The complete color palette including DMC code, description and stitch count for the selected pattern is shown below. The downloaded PDF pattern or our app will give you the complete estimate of thread-skeins required based on the canvas type and number of strands used for stitching.

Code
Description
Count
3371
Black Brown
30,901
934
Black Avocado Green
20,909
3799
Very Dark Pewter Gray
18,966
844
Ultra Dark Beaver Gray
11,054
3021
Very Dark Brown Gray
9,717
3031
Very Dark Mocha Brown
6,764
413
Dark Pewter Gray
6,505
09
Very Dark Cocoa
6,420
3781
Dark Mocha Brown
5,424
500
Very Dark Blue Green
4,858
924
Very Dark Gray Green
4,800
939
Very Dark Navy Blue
3,802
3045
Dark Yellow Beige
2,471
3790
Ultra Dark Beige Gray
2,140
317
Pewter Gray
1,816
3863
Medium Mocha Beige
1,776
729
Medium Old Gold
1,768
3787
Dark Brown Gray
1,740
801
Dark Coffee Brown
1,675
3827
Pale Golden Brown
1,638
611
Drab Brown
1,625
535
Very Light Ash Gray
1,624
610
Dark Drab Brown
1,502
371
Mustard
1,277
935
Dark Avocado Green
1,263
19
Medium Light Autumn Gold
1,230
3855
Light Autumn Gold
1,221
645
Very Dark Beaver Gray
1,214
167
Very Dark Yellow Beige
1,062
640
Very Dark Beige Gray
1,053
930
Dark Antique Blue
999
161
Gray Blue
971
3032
Medium Mocha Brown
944
3064
Desert Sand
913
829
Very Dark Golden Olive
910
3862
Dark Mocha Beige
871
680
Dark Old Gold
802
728
Topaz
775
826
Medium Blue
772
977
Light Golden Brown
749
322
Dark Baby Blue
726
3856
Ultra Very Light Mahogany
712
927
Light Gray Green
697
318
Light Steel Gray
677
3825
Pale Pumpkin
667
169
Light Pewter
639
823
Dark Navy Blue
623
612
Light Drab Brown
599
435
Very Light Brown
576
833
Light Golden Olive
528
3820
Dark Straw
516
779
Dark Cocoa
515
799
Medium Delft Blue
496
676
Light Old Gold
484
745
Light Pale Yellow
477
437
Light Tan
419
160
Medium Gray Blue
398
3012
Medium Khaki Green
346
3859
Light Rosewood
335
3823
Ultra Pale Yellow
324
402
Very Light Mahogany
302
739
Ultra Very Light Tan
299
725
Medium Light Topaz
298
3817
Light Celadon Green
286
932
Light Antique Blue
280
712
Cream
277
931
Medium Antique Blue
276
414
Dark Steel Gray
274
646
Dark Beaver Gray
265
783
Medium Topaz
244
3765
Very Dark Peacock Blue
240
3771
Ultra Very Light Terra Cotta
240
3772
Very Dark Desert Sand
237
3860
Cocoa
221
738
Very Light Tan
220
336
Navy Blue
191
830
Dark Golden Olive
191
3864
Light Mocha Beige
187
352
Light Coral
182
06
Medium Light Driftwood
173
3023
Light Brown Gray
172
632
Ultra Very Dark Desert Sand
161
3829
Very Dark Old Gold
152
04
Dark Tin
151
798
Dark Delft Blue
146
3033
Very Light Mocha Brown
144
831
Medium Golden Olive
143
3822
Light Straw
119
995
Dark Electric Blue
91
677
Very Light Old Gold
90
3776
Light Mahogany
89
159
Light Gray Blue
87
31
Blueberry
72
3865
Winter White
69
972
Deep Canary
68
3809
Very Dark Turquoise
8

All our patterns are the highest quality that can be created for the given size and color constraints. Occasionally this results in some threads that are only used for a handful of stitches in a pattern but we include them because they are the best matches for those colors. You can stitch them as-is or you can use your own judgement and may decide to replace them with another similar color that is already used elsewhere in the pattern. Use our closest DMC thread-color lookup tool to select candidates for replacement.

Image Sizes

Patterns can be used with any canvas type, all that will change is the physical dimensions of the completed image. To allow for mounting a cross-stitch piece in a frame we recommend a canvas size with at least 3 additional inches on each edge.

Completed Image Size Suggested Canvas Size
Canvas Type Width Height Width Height
11 Count Aida 35" 43 ¾" 41" 49 ¾"
14 Count Aida 27 ½" 34 ¼" 33 ½" 40 ¼"
16 Count Aida 24" 30" 30" 36"
18 Count Aida 21 ¼" 26 ¾" 27 ¼" 32 ¾"
20 Count Aida 19 ¼" 24" 25 ¼" 30"
22 Count Hardanger 17 ½" 21 ¾" 23 ½" 27 ¾"
25 Count Evenweave 15 ¼" 19 ¼" 21 ¼" 25 ¼"
28 Count Evenweave 13 ¾" 17 ¼" 19 ¾" 23 ¼"
32 Count Evenweave 12" 15" 18" 21"

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