"blackwork" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From black + work.",
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          "text": "All those garments are long gone since, that Katherine embroidered with Spanish blackwork.",
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        "A form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric with a twisted thread."
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        "(sewing) A form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric with a twisted thread."
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          "text": "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 […]",
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        "(obsolete) Work connected with funerals, as an undertaker's assistant or a maker of mourning clothes, etc."
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