Traditionally, blackwork embroidery is done with black silk thread on cream-colored linen using a backstitch or double-running stitch. Sometimes it is embellished with gold metallic thread. Erica Wilson’s “The Craft of Black Work and White Work,” published in 1973, which I found lurking on one… Read More
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Fit for a queen, blackwork embroidery has roots with Catherine of Aragon
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