On 1/15/08 5:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For a deeper yellow / brown onion skins which
can be fixed in the same way as any standard dye.
When playing with various weeds, I found that onionskin
would dye wool rusty brown by themselves or with vinegar,
bright yellow-orange with pickling
information but having got it out of my head there is now room
for a little more
Regards
Liz Baker
-Original Message-
From: Adele Shaak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Tamara P Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: Lace Arachne lace@arachne.com
Sent: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 6:04
Subject: Re: [lace] Re: Brilliana
On Jan 14, 2008, at 19:55, Jane Partridge wrote:
A lot
of the portraits of the time were, I think, a 'from the stock painted
by
the apprentices' body with a 'snapshot' portrait of the head added by
the artist - if you look at old portraits, you will see an awful lot of
unrelated women wearing
*Yellow* starched ruffs and bands? *Yellow* ruff (on Mrs Turner)?
Yellow??? What gives here, does anyone know? Does Planche mean
gilt (metallic), or yellowed linen? And, if linen, how come it was
allowed to get yellow? This is the first time I've *ever* heard of
yellow lace and here he seems
