It wasn't the weight of the wool, it was its properties: wool is the
only fiber that holds heat even while wet. In the 19th c, you really
_could_ catch your death of cold, or so they believed. Up til the
1920s, most bathing suits were woolen.
== Marjorie Wilser
=:=:=:Three Toad
And then there was Bailey's Beach at Newport, RI where men 'bathed' in the
Buff!? Women, of course had another section of the beach where they changed
from street ensembles to bathing attire in bathing wagons (think gypsey) which
hauled them into waist high water.
-Original Message-
You can still catch your death of cold today: if, for whatever reason, you're
stuck outside and wet, you'll get hypothermic much faster wearing a cotton
sweater than a wool (or synthetic fleece) sweater. Cotton soaks up water and
keeps it, robbing the fabric of any insulating qualities. Like
I have a question for the dyers on the list.
Some listmates on a list discussing works of our favorite author came noted
this sentence:
He had a beard which was the yolk yellow of floss dyed with kermes and fustic
Anyone have a idea of what color(s) she may have in mind?
Jane, feeling wan and
Michael Shamansky's list has popped out another interesting title, to be
released in February:
Title: On A Pedestal: From Renaissance Chopines to Baroque Heels
Author: Semmelhack, Elizabeth
http://www.artbooks.com/wc.dll?AB~emailReview~itemno=105190custno=12840
Janet
Hmmm.
Kermes is a related insect to the cochineal bug--it gives that lovely deep
pure red. Fustic is the heartwood of one of the trees in the Mulberry
family, and it produces yellows and oranges. You could, in theory, use
kermes with fustic but I think unless you had a very large
In a message dated 1/15/2010 6:17:41 PM Eastern Standard Time,
pi...@hundred-acre-wood.com writes:
Kermes is a related insect to the cochineal bug--it gives that lovely deep
pure red. Fustic is the heartwood of one of the trees in the Mulberry
family, and it produces yellows and oranges.
I think unless you had a very large concentration
of fustic in relation to the concentration of kermes you'd get orange
rather than yolk yellow.
over-dyeing fustic with even a weak concentration of kermes would give
yolk yellow. I agree that orange would be much more likely.
The
I agree. My immediate thought was a rather orangey yellow. I still don't
think that eggs should have a pale yellow yolk.
Ginni Morgan
landofoz lando...@netins.net 1/15/10 4:51 PM
I think unless you had a very large concentration
of fustic in relation to the concentration of kermes
