blackwork

Noun

1. A form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric with a twisted thread.
   • All those garments are long gone since, that Katherine embroidered with Spanish blackwork. - 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 334:
2. Work connected with funerals, as an undertaker's assistant or a maker of mourning clothes, etc.
   • 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...
3. A style of tattoo with areas of solid black ink.