blackwork — Dizionario inglese

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1. A form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric with a twisted thread.

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   All those garments are long gone since, that Katherine embroidered with Spanish blackwork.

2. Work connected with funerals, as an undertaker's assistant or a maker of mourning clothes, etc.

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   In Mary Barton (1848), the seamstress sewing black mourning clothes is referred to as being engaged in 'blackwork', while the manufacturing company, the Courtaulds, held a monopoly on crapes from the onset of funeral practices […]

3. A style of tattoo with areas of solid black ink.

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