Dear Kathy,
I am a big consumer of Eterna stranded silk floss. I have kg.s of it in
boxes here.
I have taken many greens, its always nice with sellections of greens for
flower leaves. Also a lot of reds. A little les of blues. They dont have
many yellows, so perhaps some of those would be nice, orange two. Some
purples are also nice. Black, white and grey.
What i dont use much of is browns.
But wich collours of use in the different periods, you better ask somebody
else.
Another time i would be very interrested if we could share an order of the
lawn. I got contakt to the lady who closed the embroidery shop, and she is
sending me some of that fine linnen i was talking about.
Many greetings
Bjarne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 9:15 PM
Subject: [h-cost] Stranded Silk Floss
I am trying to sort out what colours to stock most of when I finally start
ordering in floss stock from Eterna Silks - I plan on selling their line of
stranded silk, and as demand sees fit, others in time. I thought originally
to find a bunch of embroidery books and use them as my references (I plan on
making up floss packs that one can buy a range of colours for a group price)
but realised that if I compared to extant, I will be getting today's
colours, which could be faded or otherwise altered by time. If people are
wanting these flosses for reproduction work, they want it to look how it did
when it was new.
Does anyone out there have a decent book or two I can use as reference for
colouring relative to historical dying of silk? I'd like to for example,
have a pack for Norse, Tudor, Elizabethan, Byzantine, Heraldic, etc that
covers the general colour tones one would expect to find in such periods and
cultures. I have 575 colours to choose from, and as much as I would like to
buy one of everything and just go to town, it's not a practical approach to
efficient stocking.
I'm hoping to get some stock in and at least try to get a bit of Christmas
rush covered, but this issue is kind of hanging me up.
On the topic of Kammerdug (which I did a little searching and it translates
to lawn), I can get linen as fine as that here in North America, and if
anyone wants it, I'll gather an order. The merchant that Kimiko mentioned I
am betting is buying from the same company as I do, however theirs is the
narrower Czech - nothing wrong with it, just a middle-high end grade. I have
bolts of both and can compare. I have been getting the museum quality
Belgian cambric from them, and it is so fine and lovely that angels fear to
touch it. It's pricey, but oh-so-worth it. I can't afford to stock this
item, I just act as the clearing house for gathered orders. They require a
minimum purchase.
Thanks
Kathy
Ermine, a lion rampant tail nowed gules charged on the shoulder with a rose
Or barbed, seeded, slipped and leaved vert
(Fieldless) On a rose Or barbed vert a lion's head erased gules.
It’s never too late to be who you might have been.
-George Eliot
Tosach eólais imchomarc. - Questioning is the beginning of knowledge.
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