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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.
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.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/1581/bwgallery/
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.
