Elizabethan Blackwork

Flowers & Fruit


Home | What's New? | Costume | Flowers & Fruit | Borders | Fillings | Seasons | Harvest | Coronets | Lace | Leaf Borders | Floral Borders | More Roses | Artichokes | Pomegranates | Cowslips | Parsley, Sage | Braids | Spring Borders | Variations | Bibliography | Stitch | Credits

Acorns

Blackwork Pattern - Acorns [12K]

Gillyflowers

Blackwork Pattern - Gillyflowers [8K]

Gillyflowers or Gillivors are carnations or pinks; like pink, carnation originally meant the color, from the Latin for flesh: the miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard speaks of laying on a flesh-colored foundation for a miniature as "floating in your carnation".

A Row of Roses

Blackwork Pattern - Rose2 [11K]

Grapes

Blackwork Pattern - Grapes [15K]

Daffodils

Blackwork Pattern - Daffodils [9K]



All patterns, text, and illustrations are copyright 1985-2005 Paula Katherine Marmor.
pkm@pobox.com
Created 28 March 1996
Last Updated 6 March 2005