Sample of a stitched tonal column worked with cross stitch on canvas (10 count) using a range of black and white threads. Wool was used to give the dense black and white areas at each end. Note that the colour gradation could be varied by using more or less white thread, varying the thread thickness and stitch size. The effect also varied depending on whether the white or black thread was on top.
2B: BLACKWORK
Drawings showing pattern development: Five simple pattern units were gradually built up with pen lines on graph paper. This illustrated that a lighter effect was achieved with a sparser number of lines in the pattern and a darker effect achieved with more complex patterns with many lines .Some of these patterns were then selected for the blackwork stitching exercise which follows.
Three blackwork tonal columns were worked to explore different effects.
Tonal column 1 (left): This was started with a few stitches to give a light pattern and then adding more stitches to develop a pattern which became more complex and increasingly darker in tone, using the same thread for all stitches.
Tonal column 2 (centre): This shows the effect of repeating the same pattern but varying the spacing between motifs and between the rows of stitching, using the same thread for all stitches. A denser, darker effect is achieved by stitching the motifs and rows closer together.
Tonal column 3(right): In this example the tonal darkness is increased by working the same pattern in increasingly thicker threads. In the end the embroiderer reached a point where the design could not progress any further because it was impossible to work with even thicker threads on the selected fabric.
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