#blackwork

[bananna-threads]

Hand embroidered, self drafted, birch tree inspired buttonup shirt.

[fossilknits]

decided to wait until this one was finished to show it!

this is my first cross stitch/blackwork design and i really like how it worked out with the variegated thread!

[bismutharts]

i realised recently i never posted this guy finished. his name is Edward (effervescent) and i once edited him from discord emojis . he's been done for like a year

[strange-house-art]

Available tattoo designs!

I have recently started working as a tattoo artist in Putka Tattoo & Piercing in Tampere, Finland!

Inquiries, booking etc. can be done in via email at strangehouse.tattoo@gmail.com !

[loosethreadstitchery]

Finished last night. Unlike my more geometric colour wheels, this one isn't separated into strict sections. In order to keep the transitions between colours as smooth as possible, the gradient areas had to be worked over a wedge shape. It took a bit of math and some adjustments while designing it, but the stitching itself was no more complicated than my other blackwork gradients.

Cross stitch and blackwork embroidery on 14-count Aida cloth.

Pattern here (my site) or here (Etsy).

[unholy-cvlt]

THE SKY IS FALLIN'

[death-crusade]

ig: petit.fantome.tattoo

[theinternetarchive]

blackwork print, c. 1620.

[casualfarming]

Lil bookmark while I'm working on a big project. :) First try at black work, I think I did okay. Pattern by PatchyAtBestCo on etsy.

[jemmaleetattoo]

𝔖𝔢𝔯𝔞𝔭𝔥𝔦𝔪

IG - @Jemmaleetattoo

[sepulcher-of-the-light]

The last leaf, Art by Lucas Garcete

[pardalote]

I just added this beginner-friendly embroidery pattern to my ko-fi shop - it's a small blackwork solar system, and only AUD$4 (which is around USD$2.50).

I made it like 10 years ago! It's an older pattern, but it checks out. :D

[mathysphere]

Blackwork Foxes by FlossyFoxShop

[plenilunni]

Yggdrasiel's ominous star, An Ink attack for @alleesaur ♡ She has crazy good characters

[fashionsfromhistory]

Waistcoat

c.1620-1625

England

The high waistline and narrow sleeves, open at the front seam, are characteristic of women's waistcoats of the early 1620s. The blackwork embroidery is of exquisite quality and is worked in a continuous pattern throughout the body of the garment. A group of interlocking curling stems enhanced with a garden of roses, rosebuds, peapods, oak leaves, acorns, pansy and pomegranates, with wasps, butterflies and birds, make up the embroidery design. The extremely fine speckling stitches create the shaded effect of a woodblock print. This style of blackwork is typical of the early seventeenth-century and thought to have been inspired by the designs from woodblock prints that the embroiderers were using. The waistcoat is unlined and embellished with an insertion of bobbin lace in black and white linen at the back of each sleeve, and a edging of bobbin lace in the same colours.

The Victoria & Albert (Accession number: T.4-1935)

[loosethreadstitchery]

When I said I'd continue stitching colour wheels until I was stopped, I meant it. Blackwork embroidery on black 14-count Aida cloth.

A total of 17 thread colours across 24 sections, each with its own fill motif.

Pattern here.