English Dictionary

blackwork

noun

(sewing) A form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric with a twisted thread.

Blackwork is a type of embroidery that uses black thread on a white or light-colored fabric.

意味（1）

(sewing) 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.

意味（2）

(obsolete) 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 […]