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The next blackletter specimen thing (around 1900) from the romibello.de flickr account (Robert Michael), you would have certainly missed :)
An appetizer
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more of them
http://www.flickr.com/photos/romibello
1 Mar 2007 — 12:00pm
Here the matching socks…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/typeoff/400601961/in/set-72157594553445262/
1 Mar 2007 — 2:28pm
Hey, it would be fun to design a bitmappy blackletter font that references this stuff, although I assume that it's already been done
--N
2 Mar 2007 — 12:11am
Indeed it has: http://www.fontshop.de/newsfeed/files/a7e17e10d437c2b791512937aace86b2-2...
Mayber there is still room for a cross-stitch blackletter, though.