You may be interested in looking at the use of 'Spanish Stitch', which is
linked to the Blackwork Embroidery of the Elizabethan period.
While I have not done detailed research into the use of the term, I do know
that the first mention of it in connection with what we now call 'Double
Running Stitch' and Blackwork Embroidery appears in Peter Quentel's
Musterbuch of 1527. The lacy geometric filling patterns used in blackwork
embroidery have been loosely linked to Moresque culture, and this kind of
work appears on early Coptic woven and embroidered textiles samplers, and
later on Islamic textiles.
Blackwork embroidery is one of my special interests and if following up any
of this is useful or of interest to you, please feel free to get in touch.
Leon Conrad
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