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Blackwork is a centuries-old form of embroidery. In Elizabethan times clothing was decorated with delicate blackwork patterns stitched in black silk threads, and sometimes accentuated with g…

Blackwork or Spanish Blackwork is a form of embroidery using black silk on white or off-white linen. Learn more and get free designs here.

Blackwork Bookmark Trio the First Pattern three bookmark patterns to stitch in blackwork

Discover How to Do Blackwork: Is a stitch outline necessary for all blackwork projects or can it be left off to create an elegant, subtle design?

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Free Bookmark pattern that is 30 x 100 stitch count in size, Once Upon a Time with a simple and easy for beginners blackwork fill design, -- Happy Stitching

Finished up a couple of Blackwork bookmarks in July. We spent a couple of days at my In-Law's cabin on a lake. If I wasn't helping with meals or reading, I was stitching under the trees. It was such a relaxing couple of days. The basic pattern, for the bookmark above, is from my Blackwork Made Easy Book by Leslie Wilkins. The other bookmark shown below was a pattern I found on Pinterest. They just need a nice little backing and then will be put into my Bible. That's all for today. Until…

Recently, my self-published book - BLACKWORK PATTERNS - was reviewed in the September issue of ANG's NEEDLE POINTERS magazine. As I explain in the introduction, "After several years of stitching and designing blackwork patterns, I decided it would be helpful to have a reference book containing all the different stitch patterns I had used in my designs." So began a massive job of collecting and graphing all the blackwork patterns I had used or come across thus far. After creating 70+ pages of…