This week’s Spoonflower fabric print-on-demand design is now available!  This print, Elizabethan Blackwork Barberries, is based on the blackwork embroidery on an extant jacket.  It has no filling design so it may be used as printed or embroidered over. This design is also available as wallpaper and wrapping paper. Find all the currently available designs at http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/sidney_eileen A
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My latest Spoonflower fabric print-on-demand design is now available!  This print, Elizabethan Blackwork Flowers, Birds, and Bugs, is based on the blackwork embroidery on an extant smock.  It has no filling design so it may be used as printed or embroidered over. This design is also available as wallpaper and wrapping paper. Find all the currently
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My latest Spoonflower fabric print-on-demand design is now available!  This print, Tudor Floral Knotwork, is based on the blackwork embroidery visible on a doublet worn by Henry Tudor in a period portrait.  It has no filling design so it may be used as printed or embroidered over. Find all the currently available designs at http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/sidney_eileen A new
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My latest Spoonflower fabric print-on-demand design is now available! This print, Elizabethan Blackwork Floral Bands, is based on the blackwork embroidery found on an extant Elizabethan era jacket, simplified so it may be used as printed or embroidered over.
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I have set up several more Elizabethan blackwork designs as fabrics on Spoonflower, and released the first of those publicly a few days ago. My plan is to release a new design roughly once a week until they are all available to you.
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The first two Elizabethan blackwork embroidery patterns are now available on spoonflower print-on-demand, as fabric, wrapping paper, and wallpaper.
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I’ve been transcribing some more blackwork embroidery patterns, so, I present to you, six more Elizabethan transcriptions for your reference and use.
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I am very seriously considering making some of the freehand blackwork embroidery patterns I have transcribed available as print-on-demand fabrics via Spoonflower. Â This would mean they would be available for you to buy already printed on fabric, to use as fabric for costuming or any other purpose, or to save yourself the trouble of transferring
Read MoreI have transcribed two more Elizabethan freehand blackwork embroidery patterns, both from extant smocks in the Victoria and Albert Museum collections.  I was very excited to find the museum listing for the lattice pattern.  I have admired the embroidery design on Pinterest for years, but the link was no longer any good and I had failed
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I have finished the embroidery on my blackwork forehead cloth. In the next week I will be turning it into an actual garment piece. It is flat silk on linen, and the design is my own creation. Elizabethan English style freehand blackwork embroidery. In the photos I have included detail shots of the front and back.
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