My understanding is that it's a yellowish green, making the color in the
middle link most accurate. At least on my monitor. Exclusive_silks is
the same business as pure_silks on eBay; you might want to look at their
listings too. For myself, I don't worry about not being able to find a
solid fabric color, since I can always dye white or off-white fabric.
See
http://www.dharmatrading.com/dyes/dyes-for-dyeing-silk-wool-nylon.html?lnav=dyes.html
Fran
Lavolta Press
Books of historic clothing patterns
www.lavoltapress.com
On 1/15/2015 1:19 PM, Hope Greenberg wrote:
The color name "pomona green" appears throughout early 19th century
fashion magazines. Fashion plates display women in pomona green gowns,
or with pomona green accessories, and descriptions of the color
usually refer to leaves or apples. First problem: the images depicted
are showing a range of greens (understandable in that they are usually
handpainted). Second problem: trying to find a green that matches any
of the greens in that range is rather difficult in our current decade
of very blue greens or very yellow/olive greens. Even the pantone
color chart shows us that this range of greens doesn't seem to be in
vogue.
So, here's a challenge! Which of the three fabrics linked here would
you place in the "closest to pomona green" category. I know, "none of
them" or "you can't tell from an online picture" are both logical
responses as is "just buy some and then decide"! But I'm hoping some
of you will take a stab at this. And if anyone knows of another site
that has the perfect pomona green in a lightweight silk taffeta
(especially at these prices) oh my! I would love to know about it. :-)
http://www.puresilks.us/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=4014
http://www.puresilks.us/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=2741
http://www.puresilks.us/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=2163
and this is the color I'm most in love with in an illustration:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/194991858836404282/
- Hope
P.S. And my apologies for sending a question about greens amidst the
discussion about post mortem photographs...(groan: ducking and running).
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