Blackwork: An Introduction Save
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.
http://www.needlepoint.org/Archives/B...   

Blackwork Embroidery Archives Save
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.
http://blackworkarchives.com/   

Blackwork Fill-in Patterns Save
Charted designs from sixteenth-century sources, with notes, at the Atlantian Embroiderers Guild (Society for Creative Anachronism).
http://aeg.atlantia.sca.org/projects/...   

Blackwork Gallery Save
Annotated links to Renaissance portraits and paintings featuring blackwork, at the Elizabethan Practical Companion.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete...   

Blackwork from Stitch On Line Save
History and techniques, early design sources, and bibliography, from the Skinner Sisters. Illustrated.
http://www.skinnersisters.com/stitch/...   

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