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  • Blackwork Designs from 16th Century Sources - Charted patterns from period portraits of Mrs Pemberton (by Holbein) and Bess of Hardwick.
    infotrope.net/sca/textiles/embroidery/blackwork-sources
  • Blackwork Embroidery Archives - 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.
    blackworkarchives.com
  • Blackwork Fill-in Patterns - Charted designs from sixteenth-century sources, with notes, at the Atlantian Embroiderers Guild (Society for Creative Anachronism).
    aeg.atlantia.sca.org/projects/howto/blackwork/index.htm
  • Blackwork from Stitch On Line - History and techniques, early design sources, and bibliography, from the Skinner Sisters. Illustrated.
    www.skinnersisters.com/stitch/issue1/index.html
  • Blackwork Gallery - Annotated links to Renaissance portraits and paintings featuring blackwork, at the Elizabethan Practical Companion.
    www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/1581/bwgallery
  • Blackwork: An Introduction - 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.
    www.needlepoint.org/Archives/Blackwork/Article.htm
  • Jill Cater Nixon - Blackwork charts and cross stitch using many different threads, beads, and sequins. Designs include fairies, costumes, and cars.
    members.madasafish.com/~jillcn/freechart.htm

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