Dear Devon and others interested in this subject,
A reference that will be familiar to you is the portraits in "Antique Laces
of the American Collectors" by Frances Morris and Marian Hague, segments of
which were published over a period of years in the 1920's. There is a photo
of a portrai
*Yellow* "starched ruffs and bands"? *Yellow* ruff (on Mrs Turner)?
Yellow??? What "gives" here, does anyone know? Does Planche mean
"gilt" (metallic), or yellowed linen? And, if linen, how come it was
allowed to get yellow? This is the first time I've *ever* heard of
yellow lace and here he seem
Silk took the dye easier than linen would - but the chemicals would age the
silk rather quickly, and the cloth would shatter before long, especially
black-dyed silk.
Linen can certainly be boiled, yet it was difficult to set a strong colour,
something about the resistance of lignin to the dye chemi
On Jan 15, 2008, at 1:04, Adele Shaak wrote:
I have heard of this before; that the linen didn't "yellow" on its
own, it was deliberately treated in some manner so that it became
bright yellow. I don't know how long the colour lasted - linen is
notoriously difficult to dye,
Nowhere near as di
