[Steppes] Fw: [SCA-Garb] The "pink is period" question

[Chiara Francesca]

Since there was some discussion about pink at Populace here is a large 
grouping of links to help answer some more of those questions. :)

Chiara
"...Pink is my signature color"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rachel L. Gray" <rgray at jjhill.org>
To: <SCA-Garb at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 4:13 PM
Subject: RE: [SCA-Garb] The "pink is period" question


> >From the archives:
>
> Here's bubblegum pink: 
> http://image.ox.ac.uk/images/bodleian/ms.bodl.264/2v.jpg
> A pink loving Irish lady at the bottom of the page: 
> http://reconstructinghistory.com/irish/shinrone.html
> Magenta: http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/b/bronzino/2/panciat2.html
> Almost a melon/salmon pink: 
> http://alfalfapress.com/history/costume/images/1516._pontormo.jpg
> Almost hot pink: 
> http://alfalfapress.com/history/costume/images/1525_venetian.jpg
> Salmon pink veil: 
> http://epee.goldsword.com/sfarmer/SCA/Paintings/german_Visitation-kitzingerPl14.jpg
> Plain pink: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/images/heures/april.jpg
>
> Vicki - it looks to me like you could almost name any pink & they had it! 
> There's more info on pinks in period on this website, including a couple 
> of things they used for dying: 
> http://www.geocities.com/jane_of_stockton/sca_garb_myths.html
>
> And this site: http://cunnan.sca.org.au/wiki/Red_dye talks about how they 
> made reds, and pinks were for the cheaper fabrics as they were the last to 
> use the dye pots.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Anpliça
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: SCA-Garb at yahoogroups.com [mailto:SCA-Garb at yahoogroups.com] On
>>Behalf Of Vicki
>>Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 3:26 PM
>>To: SCA-Garb at yahoogroups.com
>>Subject: [SCA-Garb] The "pink is period" question
>>
>>What SHADES of pink would we be talking about? Pastel baby pink,
>>mauve, fushia? Is there a particular range of colors that would be
>>more likely than others to be found? What kind of dyes are used to
>>acheive a "period pink"?
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