blackwork
Etymology
From black + work.
blackwork means A form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric with a twisted thread. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.
noun
- A form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric with a twisted thread.“All those garments are long gone since, that Katherine embroidered with Spanish blackwork.”
- Work connected with funerals, as an undertaker's assistant or a maker of mourning clothes, etc.“In Mary Barton (1848), the seamstress sewing black mourning clothes is referred to as being engaged in 'blackwork', while the manufacturing company, the Courtaulds, held a monopoly on crapes from the onset of funeral practices […]”
- A style of tattoo with areas of solid black ink.