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Blackwork Embroidery is normally simply referred to as "Blackwork".
It is a simple form of embroidery, using black thread on white or off-white fabric. Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
Technique Blackwork is usually executed on evenweave fabric that is easily countable. Any black thread can be used, but firmly twisted threads of any material give a better look than embroidery floss. Sometimes metallic threads or coloured threads are used for accents. Related embroidery forms are Whitework, which uses white thread and Scarletwork, which uses red thread. The stiches used are double running stich, which is also called holbein stich or backstich and sometimes stem stich.
Historically, there are three known techniques to execute blackwork.
- The stiches are executed following a counting pattern, creating both the bigger shapes and small filling patterns. Most modern blackwork follows this pattern, especially the commercially produced patterns that are marketed for hobby stitchers. The whole embroidery looks somewhat geometric.
- The shapes, which can be curvilinear, are surrounded by outlines made fom stem stich and then filled with geometric patterns
- The entire embroidery is curvilinear, and often uses random stitches, so-called seed stitches, as filling rather than geometric patterns. This style was invented to mimic etchings.
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History
 Elizabeth I wearing blackwork sleeves Historically, blackwork was used on shirts and chemises or smocks in England from the time of Henry VIII. Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Elizabeth_Bettes_detail. ...
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Fashionable young men in early 16th century Germany showed a lot of fine linen in a studied negligence. ...
Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England and Lord of Ireland (later King of Ireland) from 22 April 1509 until his death. ...
Initially it was known as "Spanish work" since Catherine of Aragon is said to have brought many blackwork garments with her from Spain. A favourite motif on her clothing was the pomegranate which was used as a heraldic device in Granada, where Catherine lived as a child. The recently-widowed young Catherine of Aragon, by Henry VIIs court painter, Michael Sittow, c. ...
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The portrait painter Hans Holbein the Younger became court painter to Henry VIII, and he painted Henry's queens wearing smocks decorated with blackwork. The double-running stitch employed in blackwork is often called Holbein stitch. Hans Holbein the Younger (c. ...
Hans Holbein is the name of two German Renaissance painters: Hans Holbein the Elder (1460-1524) Hans Holbein the Younger (c. ...
Blackwork in silk on linen was a predominant domestic embroidery technique for clothing (shirts, smocks, sleeves, ruffs, and caps) and for household items such as cushion covers throughout the reign of Elizabeth I, but it lost its popularity by the 17th century. Silk weaver Silk is a natural protein fiber that can be woven into textiles. ...
Torn linen cloth, recovered from the Dead Sea Linen is a material made from the fibers of the flax plant. ...
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Elizabeth I Queen of England and Ireland Queen of France, nominal title Elizabeth I (September 7, 1533–March 24, 1603) was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from November 17, 1558 until her death. ...
Modern blackwork Today, blackwork is more popular than ever. It has a modern feel, due to its austere, formal quality. Much of the success of a blackwork design depends on how tone values are translated into stitches.
Amongst the motifs used, maps are parlicularly popular, also chessboards, in fact anything which could be the subject of a pen and ink drawing.
Blackwork is also an integral part of Assisi Embroidery where it is used to outline the main motif and some of the decoration. Both modern and folk-art cross-stich are sometimes combined with blackwork or similar backstich embroidery. Traditional Assisi embroidery shows motifs inspired by nature. ...
References George Wingfield Digby. Elizabethan Embroidery. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1964.
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