Useful Books and Bibliographies

    "Whit was hir Smok, an Broyden al bifore,
  
And eke bihynde, on hir coler aboute,
  
Of colblak silk withinne and eke without..."
     Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Miller's Tale".  Unlikely to be blackwork as we know it,
 but what a great description all the same...

Bibliographies and Collections

"Portrait of a Lady", Foschi, 1530s
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Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

 PDFs of a gazillion old needlework books - not much blackwork, but you need this stuff anyway!
PDF file- great "all techniques" collection
 by Mathilde Eschenbach - the books we dream of owning
Books
 PDF download from "Godfrey's Bookshelf"
 On-line facsimile

Young Man At His Office Desk", H. Holbein 1541
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Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna


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