Sometimes sprites feel like cross-stitch. Commodore Computing International magazine cover (1983).
Braille Single Cell Sampler, via.
From PETSCII to Cross-stitch by Raquel Meyers on Flickr.
Artistic Embroidery (Художественная вышивка), a book edited by L. Ya. Razutova (Л. Я. Разутовой) in 1963. Soviet artistic folk embroidery patterns. Images from an Ebay auction. More info (in Russian) here.
Post updated in 2024.
Cross-stitch is a popular form of counted-thread embroidery in which X-shaped stitches in a tiled, raster-like pattern are used to form a picture.