Blackwork

See also:

• Recreation: Living History: By Topic: Costumes: Period: Medieval and Renaissance: Renaissance  (9)

Blackwork: An Introduction - - Survey article from Needle Pointers magazine XI:5, Winter 1983, by Carol Algie Higginbotham, EGA certified teacher of blackwork. Modern and traditional examples, bibliography, some free charts.

Blackwork Embroidery Archives - - Collection of original floral and geometric patterns to download. Includes historical notes on blackwork in Renaissance costume, instructions for working double-running stitch, bibliography and links.

Blackwork Fill-in Patterns - - Charted designs from sixteenth-century sources, with notes, at the Atlantian Embroiderers Guild (Society for Creative Anachronism).

Blackwork from Stitch On Line - - History and techniques, early design sources, and bibliography, from the Skinner Sisters. Illustrated.

Blackwork Gallery - - Annotated links to Renaissance portraits and paintings featuring blackwork, at the Elizabethan Practical Companion.