(To be added to as I find them/people recommend them. Page being a basis for an upcoming class/round table workshop on blackwork at Canterbury Faire 2012)
Books:
Patterns of Fashion 4 by Janet Arnold - Includes blackworked shifts and shirts. Very very nice. Information about extant garments.
The New Carolingian Modelbook by Kim Brody Salazar (SCA Ianthe d'Averoigne) - very good if you can get hold of a copy. Patterns generally taken from period sources.
Beginner's Guide to Blackwork by Leslie Wilkins - ok intro to technique. Good start if you are not fussed about period sources for patterns.
Blackwork embroidery by Elisabeth Geddes and Moyra McNeill - 1965 Dover book - short historical section with some black and white images of paintings and some textiles. OKish.
Blackwork by Mary Gostlow - 1976 Dover edition - again, historical section includes some black and white paintings and textiles (only 2 colour ones, some overlap with the previous book re images, but probably the better of the two). OKish.
Websites:
http://www.string-or-nothing.com/ - Blog by Kim Brody Salazar. Includes links to her (free pdf) book of fill patterns Ensampario Atlantio (link to post where she gives the links). She also has tutorials on how to produce the same pattern on both sides of the fabric (and how to look at patterns to try and achieve this).
http://blackworkarchives.com/ - not a bad starting place for just learning and playing with basic 16th C inspired patterns. Not period sources.
http://aeg.atlantia.sca.org/projects/howto/blackwork/index.htm - More period blackwork fill patterns (cites sources).
http://www.larsdatter.com/blackwork.htm Good link collection for images and extant textiles.
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O46183/sampler/ Jane Bostocke sampler from the Victoria and Albert Museum. Earliest dated British sampler (1598). Period pattern source.
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O70028/sampler/ Italian sampler from the Victoria and Albert Museum. Period pattern source.
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Post class, via the Lochac Worshipful Company of Broiderers email list, http://www.flowersoftheneedle.com/ has put up a set of PDFs of collections of period pattern books (German and Italian). I have not yet looked at these in detail, but they may be of interest to people.
Thanks for the mention, both for Enslamplario Atlantio and for Kathryn's Flowers of the Needle. For the record, she also has a treatise on voided embroidery at her site. And I'm working on a sequel to The New Carolingian Modelbook, which I hope to have out later this year.
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