blackwork

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim 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 […]”

3. isim A style of tattoo with areas of solid black ink.