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From: "Robin Netherton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-- linen dyed in strong colors, e.g. cranberry, deep green, bright red,
black (I've been using the hot pink for mock-ups!)
-- glazed cotton (apricot, blue)
Ooooh, this is going to drive me crazy. I found something semi-recently
that seemed to document black (well, blackish) linen; in fact, if I remember
right, it said that the main colors that linens used for garment
construction (presumably linings, facings, and accessories) were dyed are
sky blue, gray/brown, and very dark brownish/blackish/gray. But I am
completely blanking on where I read it, and am thinking that unfortunately
it was in the I-am-an-idiot-and-forgot-to-write-down-the-name-of-the-book
book that I recently photographed for lack of a scanner. It's a two inch
thick book put out by some part of Oxford U that attempts to reprint every
single document from England in the Tudor era, and part of a long series
that attempts to do the same for every era of Britain's history. They fail,
but they do have a ton of stuff. (Robin, it lives in the Covenant Seminary
library on Conway Rd just west of 270.) I've got pictures of at least a
third of the pages in the book sitting in a file on my computer waiting to
be typed up, and they're a real nuisance to check through in that format
because there's no way to search them. I'll look in my other files and see
if I can find it elsewhere; I could be remembering wrong about how strong
the documentation is, unfortunately.
But er, anyway, even though the black is no doubt too pure a black to be
hugely accurate, you might want to recheck whether or not it's useful. Or
you know, give it to me. =}
The glazed cotton should be hugely useful to 19thC people; it's the de
rigueur lining material for bodices and dresses, at least in the 2nd half of
it.
-E House
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