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(sewing) A form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric with a twisted thread. quotations examples
All those garments are long gone since, that Katherine embroidered with Spanish blackwork.
2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 334
(obsolete) Work connected with funerals, as an undertaker's assistant or a maker of mourning clothes, etc. quotations
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 […]
2016, Haewon Hwang, London's Underground Spaces