Dear Robin--
If you are planning on attending this year's Costume Con in NJ, would you
be interested in doing a talk or two? I am the Programming Director for
hte con. Your talks are always well-attended and very appreciated.
Yours in cosutming, Lisa a
On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:00:48 -0600
My favorite memory of hall costuming.
Kayta Barrows was a close friend of mine. She often judged something
at . . . Oh gosh. Forgot the Con name! Memorial Day in San Jose: is
that SiliCon? Kayta had been costuming longer than me, and often
helped me fit my muslins, as I helped her fit
Not that I'm aware of. There are teaching farms and similar types of
locations. You may be thinking of another university.
At any rate, there is only one Morrill Hall at ISU.
Denise B
Iowa
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:25:55 -0800
Ginni Morgan ginni.mor...@doj.ca.gov wrote:
Are you referring to
I can't find the reference (which is going to drive me nuts!), but I
seem to remember reading somewhere that it was because blue cloth was
more expensive to manufacture, so wearing a blue coat told people that
you could afford the best.
Emily
On 1/31/2011 7:53 PM, Hope Greenberg wrote:
After a blistering trip to the Googles:
Prussian Blue had been known as a painting pigment as early as 1704, but
it was in 1752 the French chemist Pierre J.
Macquerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_J._Macquer made
the important step of showing the Prussian blue could be reduced to a salt
of
That would be BayCon.
--cin
Cynthia Barnes
cinbar...@gmail.com
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Marjorie Wilser the3t...@gmail.com wrote:
Kayta Barrows was a close friend of mine. She often judged something at .
. . Oh gosh. Forgot the Con name! Memorial Day in San Jose: is that SiliCon?
Actually, Prussian blue was discovered in the 18th century and it is a
bright, greenish-blue. It is not an aniline dye. The aniline dyes were
developed in the 1850s and 60s. Fine wool broadcloth was almost certainly
dyed
with indigo. It is true that it would take several dippings to
How soon we (well, I!) forget! Thanks, Cin!
== Marjorie
On Feb 1, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Cin wrote:
That would be BayCon.
--cin
Cynthia Barnes
cinbar...@gmail.com
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Marjorie Wilser the3t...@gmail.com
wrote:
Kayta Barrows was a close friend of mine. She often
Hi folks.
I must, respectfully, disagree with Ann on a point about the color Prussian
Blue Prussian Blue is defined as absorbing wavelengths about around 680 nm,
causing it to appear in visible light as approximately 700 THz. Which is a
lovely strong blue leaning towards the violet end of the
Sorry I ant include exact dates as I'm at work and it's a hassle to look it up
on my phone!
Indigo dyes were around for a long time. However, they were made from extracts
of plants. This process was extremely costly for the plants themselves, it took
multiple baths in the he in order to reach
Not a vcry scientific or historical comment, but that Prussian Blue
was my FAVORITE Crayola crayon, and I hated that it got re-named
Midnight.
So Wiki is probably right on this.
--Ruth Anne Baumgartner
On Feb 1, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Marie Stewart wrote:
Hi folks.
I must, respectfully,
Sorry, 1860's not 1760's!
Michael Deibert
OAS AAS LLS
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On Feb 1, 2011, at 18:04, Marie Stewart maric...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi folks.
I must, respectfully, disagree with Ann on a point about the color Prussian
Blue Prussian Blue is defined as absorbing wavelengths about
I don't know if this has any thing to do with it, but woad was the blue used
before the discovery of indigo. It smelled so bad that in Elizabethan times,
woad dyers had to be located outside of town. Woad is interesting in that in
the dye bath, it appears a muddy yellow-green, but when the dyed
On 2/1/2011 6:48 AM, Lisa A Ashton wrote:
If you are planning on attending this year's Costume Con in NJ, would you
be interested in doing a talk or two? I am the Programming Director for
hte con. Your talks are always well-attended and very appreciated.
Can't make it that far; so sorry! I
By the 18th century, indigo blue was one of the most ubiquitous colors.
All kinds of working clothes were solid blue, or blue and white checks or
stripes. I grant that the very dark blues may have been a tad more
expensive, though, as they had to be dipped several times. And yes, indigo
The dyestuff in woad is chemically very similar (in fact, it might be
identical, but I can't verify that off-hand) to that in indigo, but woad
doesn't contain as much, and, naturally enough, European woad dyers resisted
the
new fangled indigo. Both woad and indigo are vat dyes--the blue
Of course there were all shades of blue, but i didn't think they were indigo.
Or perhaps is it that while the dye was called indigo, it was only common in
shades of blue because a blue hue is more a washed out version of true indigo
(which is more violet than blue)? Obviously the rich could
All of this is also true about indigo. And no, the color didn't turn back
to yellow green when wet, and AFAIK once thoroughly washed the fabric would
no longer stink. It is a chemical reaction that when finished is ...
finished.
Denise
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 15:34:45 -0800
Sharon Collier
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 21:54:12 -0500
michaeljdeib...@gmail.com michaeljdeib...@gmail.com wrote:
Of course there were all shades of
blue, but i didn't think they were
indigo. Or perhaps is it that while
the dye was called indigo, it was
only common in shades of blue because
a blue hue is more a
I've always assumed that Lydia merely wanted to know if Wickham would
wear military or civilian dress to the wedding (with a preference for
civilian). As an army officer he may not have had many civilian suits,
since he did not need them that often and did not have much spare cash.
Lydia
Of course there were all shades of blue, but i didn't think they were indigo.
Or perhaps is it that while the dye was called indigo, it was only common in
shades of blue because a blue hue is more a washed out version of true indigo
(which is more violet than blue)? Obviously the rich could
Indigo-the-dye-molecule is the main coloring matter extracted from
indigo-the-plant and from woad-the-plant.
Blue jeans fade, not due to any problems with indigo, but because their blue
threads are dipped very quickly into the dye bath out again, so their
coloring is all on the outside.
I remember a friend talking about dyeing the exactly right color for a
historic camel saddle cloth from Afghanistan, a brilliant red that
resisted duplication, until *somebody* figured out they had used camel
urine for the mordant.
Yeh, they had to go collect some.
== Marjorie Wilser
There's a great little story that comes out from the beginning of the
American Civil War, when wearing homespun was the height of Confederate
patriotism:
The young ladies were all preparing for a grand ball, that was soon to be
given, and four of them were going to wear homespun dresses. . . The
And I thought milking a cow was hard.
Sharon C.
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