V&A online catalogue (retrieved 6 July 2016).
GVE
Spanish Work
Coif with blackwork, late 16th century, ngland
Copyright Victoria and Albert Museum, London, acc. no. T.13-1948.
Spanish work is a sixteenth century English term for blackwork embroidery, especially in the double running stitch (Holbein) form. The technique of blackwork embroidery was reputedly brough to England by Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII.
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