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This is getting a lot bigger than I thought it would…
Getting some high resolution scans of #blackworkembroidery this morning
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The British Library was rammed and full of exceptionally grumpy people so I had a wander to find somewhere else to work – and found the Welcome collection reading room! What a complete gem!
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More oddities – when is #blackworkembroidery not blackwork embroidery? When it’s some form of silk shading using two colour twisted thread to look like blackkwork embroidery. I’m calling it ‘mock blackwork’
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Something a bit unusual today – #blackworkembroidery appliquéd onto 18th century silk. I’ve never seen anything quite like it!
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Something a bit unusual today – #blackworkembroidery appliquéd onto 18th century silk. I’ve never seen anything quite like it!
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Plants and insects – speckled #blackwork
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Still classed as #blackwork even though it’s red – cloth with a boarder in Holbein stitch
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#blackwork bird
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