Hello -
Thank you all for your contributions to the green fabric vote
discussion! I thought it might be fun to approach it from a different
angle as well just to see what would come of it. I pulled 30 clips that
included greens from some fashion plates, extant garment links, and a
few paintings. They are now in a Word doc oraganized as a sort of game.
The first page has the collection in chronological order but the second
has them slapped on the page as free-floating objects so they can be
dragged around. I had a couple people here try moving them around in
what seemed like, to them, logical groupings. All agreed that they
seemed to fall into 3 categories: emerald (or blue-ish), olive, grassy.
The version attached here is not particularly sorted and it has five
clips at the top of the second page that actually included the name
"pomona" in their descriptions.
If you would like to play the 'game' you can find the doc at:
http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/regency/greens/greens.docx
It is no wonder the search for green is a challenge. I've been reading
two fascinating books that have been useful. The first is about the
cultural aspects of the color while the second has more technical
information. Highly recommended:
1) Pastoureau, Michel. "Green: The History of a Color" (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2014) - "Examining the evolving place of
green in art, clothes, literature, religion, science, and everyday life,
Michel Pastoreau traces how culture has profoundly changed the
perception and meaning of the color over millennia." (He has previously
published books on blue and black.)
2) Greene, Susan W. "Wearable Prints, 1760-1860: History, Materials and
Mechanics" (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2014) - a fantastic
and monumental book on printing and dyeing fabric throughout this time
period. 568 pp. and over 1600 color images. (And the section on green is
very small and very confusing due to the challenges related to the
difficulty in getting, and elusiveness of keeping, that color!)
Enjoy!
- Hope
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