Excerpt - page 6: "One of the blackwork stitches was named after Henry VIII's court painter, Holbein, because so many of his sitters displayed it. Blackwork's closely textured stitching ... "
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Excerpt - page 6: "introduction of blackwork to England is usually attributed to the arrival of Katharine of Aragon in 1501 from Spain, but examples existed before she arrived"
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Blackwork
by Lesley Barnett
(Paperback - April 1996)
Excerpt - page 7: " ... subjects are suitable for blackwork, from geomet- ric patterns to representational pictures of land- scapes, buildings and figures, but it is often useful to think of blackwork as being planned ... "