Directory of Blackwork Resources

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• Blackwork Embroidery Archives

  http://blackworkarchives.com/
  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

  http://aeg.atlantia.sca.org/projects/howto/blackwork/index.htm
  Charted designs from sixteenth-century sources, with notes, at the Atlantian Embroiderers Guild (Society for Creative Anachronism).

• Blackwork Gallery

  http://www.larsdatter.com/blackwork.htm
  Annotated links to Renaissance portraits and paintings featuring blackwork, at the Elizabethan Practical Companion.

• Blackwork: An Introduction

  http://www.needlepoint.org/Archives/Blackwork/Article.php
  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.

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