Blackwork embroidery was used in many forms on a variety of different garments.

This gallery is intended to assist costumers in looking at ways of incorporating blackwork embroidery (and its various styles) into Renaissance-era costume: women’ clothing, women’s headwear, men’s clothing, and men’s headwear.

• St. Barbara by Hans Holbein the Elder, 1516
• A lady by Bernardino Luini, c. 1520-1525
• A young lady by Bartolomeo Veneto, c. 1520-1530
• Laura Pisani, c. 1525
• A young girl c. 1525-1540
• Anna Meyer in The Darmstadt Madonna by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1526 and after 1528; see also the preliminary sketch, c. 1526
• A lady in green, possibly the daughter of Matteo Soffaroni by Agnolo Bronzino, c. 1528-1532
• A lady by Pierfrancesco di Jacopo Foschi, c. 1530-1535
• A courtesan (Antea) by Parmigianino, c. 1530-1535
• Margaret More, wife of William Roper by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1535-1536
• Jane Seymour by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1536 (detail from cuffs)
• A lady of the Cromwell family by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1536-1540
• Jane Seymour by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1537
• Mrs. Pemberton by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1540
• Lady Dacre by Hans Eworth, 1540
• A lady of the Bodeham family, c. 1540-1545
• An unknown woman, formerly known as Catherine Howard, c. 1541
• An unknown lady by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1541
• Lady Margaret Butts by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1543
• Princess Mary by Master John, 1544
• A woman copied from a portrait by Agnolo Bronzino
• A lady by Agnolo Bronzino
• The Outdoor Concert
• Jacquemyne Buuck by Pieter Pourbus, 1551
• Queen Mary
• Queen Mary by Anthonis Mor van Dashorst, 1554
• Queen Mary, c. 1555
• The Artist’s Sisters Playing Chess by Sofonisba Anguissola, 1555
• Mary Hill, Mrs. Mackwillian, 1567
• Lady Kytson by George Gower, 1573
• Queen Elizabeth (The Phoenix Portrait), c. 1575-1576
• An unknown woman, aged 36 by Nicholas Hilliard, 1576
• Queen Elizabeth (The Pelican Portrait), c. 1575-1580
• Queen Elizabeth
• Woman's smock, c. 1575-1585
• Alice Hilliard by Nicholas Hilliard, 1578
• Queen Elizabeth playing the lute, c. 1580
• Mary Cornwallis, Countess of Bath by George Gower, c. 1580
• Queen Elizabeth, c. 1580-1585
• Queen Elizabeth by John Bettes the Younger, c. 1585-1590
• Queen Elizabeth, c. 1585-1590
• A lady by Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1585-1590
• The Falkland Tunic, c. 1586
• An unknown lady by John Bettes, 1587
• Elizabeth Brydges by Hieronimo, 1589
• Queen Elizabeth, 1590
• A lady (possibly Mistress Holland) by Nicholas Hilliard, 1593
• Queen Elizabeth, c. 1595
• An unknown lady, c. 1595
• Sleeve panels, c. 1600
• Jacket and skirt, c. 1605-1615
• Woman's smock, c. 1610

• Coif and forehead cloth attributed to Anne Boleyn
• Unknown woman, formerly Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset by Isaac Oliver, c. 1595
• Two forehead cloths and another panel, probably a stomacher or partlet, late 16th century
• A coif, late 16th century
• A forehead cloth, 16th-17th century
• A coif, c. 1600
• A coif, c. 1600
• A coif, c. 1600
• Hood, c. 1600
• A coif, early 17th century
• A forehead cloth, early 17th century
• A coif, early 17th century
• A coif, early 17th century
• A coif, c. 1600-1610
• Coif, c. 1600-1625
• A coif & forehead cloth, c. 1600-1630
• A coif, c. 1600-1630
• Forehead cloth, early 17th century
• Jacket, 1620s
• The Lacemaker by Caspar Nescher, 1662

• Portrait of a Man by Girolamo Romanino, 1516-1519
• Portrait of a man in red, c. 1520-1550
• Thomas Godsalve and his son by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1528
• A man in a red cap by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1534
• Simon George by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1535
• Thomas, Lord Vaux by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1535-1540
• A man's shirt, c. 1540-1549
• An unknown man by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1541
• Edward, Prince of Wales, with a Monkey by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1541-1542
• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1541-1543
• James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray by Hans Eworth, 1561
• Henry Lee by Antonis Mor, 1568
• Man's shirt, c. 1580-1590
• Sir Christopher Hatton, c. 1589
• Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, 1594
• Blackwork shirt, mid-17th century

• Miniature portrait of Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset by Lucas Horenbout, c. 1534
• Nightcap, 16th century
• Nightcap, c. 1600-1625