As for peasants, see if you can google Chinese painting for
that period and look for workers in the rice paddies or something like that.
There are often travelogue paintings that sometimes have servants hauling
everything up a mountain.
Ooooooohhhh, good idea!
Ann Wass
-----Original Message-----
From: Ginni Morgan <ginni.mor...@doj.ca.gov>
To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com>
Sent: Mon, Dec 3, 2012 3:54 pm
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Chinese peasant costumes... help?
Um, the June 2012 issue of National Geographic Magazine has an article with
color photographs on the colors of the Terra Cotta Army. Check your local
library (or your neighbors) for a copy. The colors were stunning. Definitely
eye bleeding time. As for peasants, see if you can google Chinese painting for
that period and look for workers in the rice paddies or something like that.
There are often travelogue paintings that sometimes have servants hauling
everything up a mountain.
Ginni
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Of WorkroomButtons.com
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 3:56 AM
To: Historical Costume
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Chinese peasant costumes... help?
Thanks! I think I found the statue you're describing:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PGdp__poAtM/T-LYMC-WgCI/AAAAAAAAL8Q/Nld5-rVqp7c/s1600/scan0004.jpg
You're right -- pretty garish... One does wonder what kind of dyes might have
been used by Chinese peasants. This may be irrelevant, but I read that
European
peasants' clothing was actually quite colorful, and that they frequently
re-dyed
them as the natural colors tended to fade.
Wow! That sounds like quite the project you have there. I haven't a clue
about
peasant costumes, sorry. But one thing you might want to think about is,
colour
was used a lot more that it would appear now. The statues pretty much appear
to
be a consistent mud shade, right? Well, I was watching one documentary about
these statutes (I admit it, the things fascinate me), and apparently they used
to be painted incredibly colourfully but the paint didn't survive time as well
as the terracotta. There are only traces of the paint left, not enough that
would show up on camera, so a German (or at least I think it was German) museum
recreated one of the statues and then using the traces of paint found on it,
painted as it would have been when it was "buried" and put it on display. Most
people are so blown away by the garishness of the colours they have difficulty
believing that is what it would have looked like. So after my long
tangent...don't write off colours for the peasan!
t kinds, because if those statues were anything to go by, apparently there
wasn't a colour they didn't like in any combination. LOL! Just about enough
to
make your eyes bleed - as bad as the Greeks!
Cheers,
Danielle
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