blackwork
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A form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric with a…
A form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric with a twisted thread.
- All those garments are long gone since, that Katherine embroidered with Spanish blackwork.
Work connected with funerals, as an undertaker's assistant or a maker of mourning…
Work connected with funerals, as an undertaker's assistant or a maker of mourning clothes, etc.
- In Mary Barton (1848), the seamstress sewing black mourning clothes is referred to as being engaged in 'blackwork', while the manufacturing company, the Courtaulds, held a monopoly on crapes from the onset of funeral practices […]
A style of tattoo with areas of solid black ink.
The neighborhood
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