[Artemisia] Period Norman Garb- Black?

[TClayton]

Well, the neat thing is, you can look for blacks that have a bit of color to 
them. Her Majesty has a dress (my favorite one) that is a "teal black". In 
certain light, it's very black, in others it's very dark green.

-----Ralph, Rex Artemisia
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tamar Black Sea" <tamar at coteduciel.org>
To: "Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list" <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 12:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] Period Norman Garb- Black?


> Thanks Your Majesty,
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> This helps me to get the desire for black fabric out of my system. I love 
> black, but didn't see anything that looked like black fabric in 
> illuminations and in the Bayeux Tapestry.
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> A few years ago, I was reading a book on traditional Scandinavian 
> knitting. Many of the Norwegian items were dyed a beautiful shade of black 
> and embellished with embroidery. The book mentioned that even into the 
> 19th century, black dye was expensive and reserved for special items. 
> However, textiles and dyes are absolutely not my area of expertise, so I 
> thought it wouldn't hurt to ask. :-)
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> YIS,
> Tamar
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