Practical Blackwork - "Spanissheworke"

     "By the Earle of Warwike, a smocke wrought with black silke, a peire of slevis, and a partelett wrought with gold, silver, and black silke..."     
          Elizabeth I's New Years Gifts, 1561 
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"Lady With A Hare" Borgona, 1540s
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Christain Museum, Esztergom

    Practical Blackwork's  Spanissheworke counted blackwork patterns are historically inspired and designed in period style, based on actual portraits and museum artifacts.  Each pattern includes charts For Sundry Useful Things - historic-style and modern clothing, household linens, decorative items- anything that could use a touch of history.


        All Spanissheworke patterns are 2 pages, printed double-sided on premium 65# cardstock.  Also available in PDF format.  $5.00 plus postage. 
                          Contact grnvixen@yahoo.com to order.

  Below are snippets of each design...

 Ackhorne
 Inspired by a 16th-cent. lady's embroidered smock...

     #SPN01

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 Bostocke 
inspired by the Bostocke sampler, 1597


#SPN02       

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Cinquefoil
inspired by Tudor-era heraldic rose designs

#SPN03           

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Dragonfly
inspired by a drawing in "A Scholehouse for the Needle" 1624

            #SPAN04

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Eglantine
inspired by a little rose pattern on the Bostocke sampler, 1597

 #SPN05

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 ffraser
inspired by a fillling pattern, 16th cent. coif

#SPN06

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Gillyflower
inspired by a pattern drawing, "A Scholehouse for the Needle"

#SPN07

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Hartes
adapted from Bronzino portrait, 1532

 #SPN08

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Impresa
adapted from Scorel portrait, 1520

 #SPN09

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Jerusha
inspired by woodcut in "Gerard's Herbal" 1597

 #SPN10

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Katherina
inspired by the personal badge of Katherine of Aragon

#SPN11

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Little Kate
inspired by the personal badge of Katherine of Aragon

 #SPN12

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Murano
 inspired by 16th-cent. Italian blackwork motifs

 #SPN13

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Pinks
inspired by numerous carnation designs in "A Scholehouse for the Needle" 1624

 #SPN16

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Det. "Marriage at Cana", Master of the Cath. Kings
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National Gallery of Art, Washington DC







     More to come, as the Inspiration Faerie strikes - have to finish the alphabet, at least!  Suggestions and requests always welcome.

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