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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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 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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The forehead cloth is almost done. Â Using linen thread I hand stitched a narrow whip stitch hem around all the edges of the cloth, and then am sewing the straps using a whip stitch over the folded edge. Â Once they are both done I will sew them to the forehead cloth and it will be
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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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The end is finally in sight! This is another entry in the continuing saga of my Elizabethan English style blackwork forhead cloth, embroidered in flat silk on linen. Â The design is my own creation. Â I should have the embroidery done any day now, and then I just need to sew the forehead cloth into an
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Flat silk on linen. This is how the blackwork forehead cloth looked on Yule. I think I am about halfway done.
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Progress on the blackwork embroidered forehead cloth. I have now done approximately one-and-one-half repetitions of the pattern, out of roughly eight total.
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