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Counted stitch blackwork, 1530s (left), and free stitch blackwork, 1590s (right). Blackwork, sometimes historically termed Spanish blackwork, is a form of embroidery generally worked in black thread, although other colours are also used on occasion, as in scarletwork, where the embroidery is worked in red thread. [1]
Sailmaker's stitch – may refer to any of the hand stitches used for stitching canvas sails, including the flat stitch, round stitch, baseball stitch, herringbone stitch. [ 2 ] Slip stitch – form of blind stitch for fastening two pieces of fabric together from the right side without the thread showing
Holbein stitch is a simple, reversible line embroidery stitch most commonly used in Blackwork embroidery and Assisi embroidery. The stitch is named after Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543), a 16th-century portrait painter best known for his paintings of Henry VIII and his children, almost all of whom are depicted wearing clothing decorated ...
Embroidered boots, 1885. Needlework was an important fact of women's identity during the Victorian age, including embroidery, netting, knitting, crochet, and Berlin wool work.
An American sampler: "Margaret Barnholt her sampler done in the twelth [sic] year of her age 1831". English band sampler featuring 'boxers', c. 1650 A needlework sampler is a piece of embroidery or cross-stitching produced as a 'specimen of achievement', [1] demonstration or a test of skill in needlework.
Black Work is a three-part British detective fiction thriller starring Sheridan Smith as police officer Jo Gillespie. The series, produced by Mammoth Screen in association with LipSync productions and Screen Yorkshire and directed by Michael Samuels, premiered on ITV on 21 June 2015, at 9pm, with two further episodes following.
Invitation to a Beheading (Russian: Приглашение на казнь, lit. ' Invitation to an execution ') is a novel by Russian American author Vladimir Nabokov . It was originally published in Russian from 1935 to 1936 as a serial in Sovremennye zapiski , a Russian émigré magazine.