I'm still unable to just focus on hours of embroidery, but I've been doing what I can on the project. The photos and more are under the cut... ( Read more... )
"but if anyone has any insight into what colors would be most appropriate for these leaves, please let me know." - that is SUCH an Eowyn question. Hope you know her - or I'll introduce you if you like ...... or you can introduce yourself!
I think she's missed this one. I am about to post the same query on an Elizabethan/Jacobian mailing list, or maybe a dyer's list. The problem is... how do natural dyes fade over time. Most of the others I've gotten a good guess based on the darkest colors that remain, and just doing lighter colors in the same color.
I think these may just be beige, or "mushroom color" as I found in an article on the colors on a glove. Unfortunately, that would really make them look like fingers, and I don't want that.
I'd be really interested in the article on 'colours on a glove' if you can be bothered digging it up. Fading of colours is a pretty big and relevant topic!
I'm looking for an excuse to buy Renaissance Wool's Elizabethan range of wools .... some day....
It is one of the items in the book, "Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book 1 (Womens Dress Patterns 1)" by North and Tirimini, the newest book I'm drooling over. The pair of gloves has some of the motif coloring listed as mushroom color, and looked a bit beige to my eye. Sorry if I confused you about the source of that color
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I think these may just be beige, or "mushroom color" as I found in an article on the colors on a glove. Unfortunately, that would really make them look like fingers, and I don't want that.
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I'm looking for an excuse to buy Renaissance Wool's Elizabethan range of wools .... some day....
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