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On the Web
- 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 Gallery - Annotated links to Renaissance portraits and paintings featuring blackwork, at the Elizabethan Practical Companion.
- 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.
- Crafts Unlimited - Counted cross stitch designs. Includes buildings, animals, landscapes, sports, vehicles, and blackwork.
- Halfpenney's of Clitheroe - Supplier for embroidery, cross stitch, goldwork, blackwork, stitchery, needlework, tapestry, renaissance wools, needlepoint, needles and scissors. Also a Coffee Shop.
- Siddhamrastu - Gallery with many examples of blackwork tattoos. [London]
- Stitch Direct - Suppliers of kits, books, charts, accessories and finishing items for cross stitch, hardanger, blackwork and other needlework techniques. Specialising in designs by Mary Hickmott.
- Black Magic Tattoo - Gallery of traditional, updated tribal, and blackwork. Also contact information and shop location.
Wikipedia Articles
- Blackwork Embroidery - Blackwork Embroidery is a form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric. Any black thread can be used, but firmly twisted threads give a better look than embroidery floss.
- Holbein stitch - Holbein stitch is a simple, reversible line embroidery stitch most commonly used in Blackwork embroidery and Assisi embroidery. The stitch is named after Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543), a 16th-century portrait painter best known for his paintings of Henry VIII and his children, almost all of whom are depicted wearing clothing decorated with blackwork embroidery.
- Leon Conrad - Leon Conrad, UK embroidery designer known particularly for historically-styled blackwork embroidery designs. In 1997 he founded the New Elizabethans embroidery arts group.