Meaning of blackwork | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric with a twisted thread.
   uncountable
2. Work connected with funerals, as an undertaker's assistant or a maker of mourning clothes, etc.
   obsolete, uncountable
3. A style of tattoo with areas of solid black ink.
   uncountable

Examples

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

“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 […]”

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