Blackwork Embroidery Archives « http://blackworkarchives.com/ | | 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 from Stitch On Line « http://www.skinnersisters.com/stitch/issue1/index.html | | History and techniques , early design sources , and bibliography , from the skinner sisters. illustrated. |
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. |