On Friday 16 September 2005 2:02 pm, WickedFrau wrote: > We are in the process of redoing the ruff for our "Suitable Gown for Her > Majesty" (SGHM) presentation at the Phoenix Art Museum in December. We > found some reasonable lace substitution (in form anyway) which is a > light ivory. I was wondering what the color range might have been in > "white" lace in Elizabethan times. I know some people were dying it > yellow and blue (later on?) but I am more interested in the "white to > neutral."
Not "dyeing" it yellow, blue, etc. But using yellow, or blue colored starch preparations to starch them. -- Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "So what if the universe is a pointless mass of hydrogen refuse powered by entropy. I'm spreading ketchup on a rubber duck, and after that I'm going to brush its teeth. So there."-- Rob Landley _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
