Blackwork embroidery tutorial

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a piece of paper with some writing on it

Ok, thanks to the response on my last post, I thought I'd round up the information on blackwork a little. I wanted to do Blackwork with my Stitch and Surface students because I think it's an amazingly beautiful technique. I'd never done it before myself, though, so it was a bit of an ambitious project. However, once in the thick of things I discovered... Blackwork isn't that hard!! You can get amazing results VERY easily. Start with a photo or drawing that has a range of lights and darks. I…

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the words blackwork stitches are written on a piece of white fabric with a hand holding it

This Embroidery how-to video demonstrates the fundamental stitches used in blackwork hand embroidery. See the 12-video ‘Blackwork Files’ playlist or watch this video directly below. Thi…

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the needle has been stitched in and is ready to be sewn

So I've been tooling along, talking about blackwork and sharing my patterns, thinking everything is hunky dory. Suddenly it hits me. I never explained what blackwork was. Yeah, there are a thousand sites that tell the story of Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII, and Holbein. And yeah, there are some really great tutorials out there with wonderful diagrams. Why should I reinvent the wheel? I'm not, really. I'm just consolidating information, making it easier for you when you come to visit. And…

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a cross stitch pattern with the words, put the orange on your hair and nourishment

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…

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a cross stitch pattern with the number twenty four in it's center and an intertwined

Modern blackwork embroidery charts and blackwork embroidery kits. You'll find some free blackwork charts, blackwork embroidery instructions and details of our free blackwork stitch-a-long. Plus lots of photographs of beautifully stitched up pieces in our galleries!

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the line wave is shown with two fingers pointing at each other, and three different positions

What is Blackwork? BLACKWORK, (also called Holbein work, monochrome work, line stitch and Spanish stitch, true stitch or punto scritto) began in the Islamic world before 1250 c.e. There are another…

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nine squares are shown in black and white on a piece of paper that has been stitched together

A detail of the shaded blackwork sampler. Each column uses the same method, the first row horizontally, the second diagonally. Blogged about here: backstitch.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/blackwork-shading-sam...

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a close up view of a piece of cloth with red thread on it and an intricate pattern

If there’s one thing to love about embroidery, it’s that there are a ton of different forms at your disposal. Stumpwork, goldwork and whitework are all traditional techniques still popular today, but

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a cross stitch pattern with black and white circles in the shape of mountains on top of each other

Come and join this one day class with embroidery expert Jo Dixey. Blackwork is quite similar to the one stitch sashiko designs just on a smaller scale. You will enjoy discovering just what you can achieve with just one colour thread and a needle. Jo is a fabulous teacher with a wealth of knowledge, having … Continue reading Jo Dixey’s Blackwork Sampler

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four different black and white squares are shown on the fabric, each with an interesting pattern

This blackwork ‘Shading Sampler’ kit enables you to enjoy and practise some blackwork shading with four kinds of thread—superfine silk thread, machine embroidery thread, stranded cotton and coton a broder.

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