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Online Images of 18th Century Stays
WOW! What great photos! Thanks, Hallie!
Online Images of 18th Century Stays
WOW! What great photos! Thanks, Hallie!
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
New Reviews on EBLS
On Amazon UK:
Excellent reference work, 25 Dec 2009
By Malcolm Green http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3LNMHO8Q79026/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
Not a book to read as such - this is not some coffee table tome on colours and pigments - but an excellent reference book, referring colour names (listed, with bibliographical details and often many citations for the same colour name) from the 14th to the end of the 19th century) over hundreds of pages. This is an excellent bit of sustained research that should appeal to everyone from artists colourpersons to the fashion-minded, costume historians, interior designers, people of the stage, horse-fanciers (sensibly many horse colours are listed) and not least of all poets. Quite a gem and quite unexpected. And if I wrote at the beginning this is "not a book to read" you will find yourself dipping and before you notice wallowing...
At the wonderful blog - Two Nerdy History Girls
The NHG library: Elephant's Breath & London Smoke
Thank you, Malcolm and Loretta!
Excellent reference work, 25 Dec 2009
By Malcolm Green http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3LNMHO8Q79026/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
Not a book to read as such - this is not some coffee table tome on colours and pigments - but an excellent reference book, referring colour names (listed, with bibliographical details and often many citations for the same colour name) from the 14th to the end of the 19th century) over hundreds of pages. This is an excellent bit of sustained research that should appeal to everyone from artists colourpersons to the fashion-minded, costume historians, interior designers, people of the stage, horse-fanciers (sensibly many horse colours are listed) and not least of all poets. Quite a gem and quite unexpected. And if I wrote at the beginning this is "not a book to read" you will find yourself dipping and before you notice wallowing...
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At the wonderful blog - Two Nerdy History Girls
The NHG library: Elephant's Breath & London Smoke
Thank you, Malcolm and Loretta!
Monday, December 21, 2009
December issue of YIPE!
The December issue of YIPE! is now available for download at
http://www.yipezine.com/
32 pages of costuming photos and fun just in time for the holidays.
http://www.yipezine.com/
32 pages of costuming photos and fun just in time for the holidays.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Giveaway Winners!
Congratulations to the winners of Elephant's Breath & London Smoke in the GoodReads Giveaway!
Riah Ellis
Amy Huziak
Seymour Hersh
Mary Reed
Your books will be shipped directly from the publisher soon. I would be very grateful if you could write a review after you've had a chance to read through it.
Many thanks to Lorina of Five Rivers Chapmanry for sponsoring the contest!
Riah Ellis
Amy Huziak
Seymour Hersh
Mary Reed
Your books will be shipped directly from the publisher soon. I would be very grateful if you could write a review after you've had a chance to read through it.
Many thanks to Lorina of Five Rivers Chapmanry for sponsoring the contest!
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Giveaway ends soon!
Just a reminder that my publisher, Lorina of Five Rivers Chapmanry, is giving away four copies of Elephant's Breath & London Smoke at Goodreads!
The contest ends late tonight!
Join in the fun! Just click on the Enter to Win button.
The contest ends late tonight!
Join in the fun! Just click on the Enter to Win button.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Interesting links
Five Rivers Books on Smashwords - changes are coming to Five Rivers Publishing
The online costume 'zine
Yipe!
has a new issue with many wonderful photos.
Volume 1, Issue 1 is now available for download (in two resolutions)
The online costume 'zine
Yipe!
has a new issue with many wonderful photos.
Volume 1, Issue 1 is now available for download (in two resolutions)
Monday, November 9, 2009
Color of the Day - Alexandra blue
Alexandra – Born at Copenhagen, Dec. 1, 1844. Daughter of Christian IX. of Denmark and wife of Edward VII., king of England, whom she married March 10, 1863.
Century Cyclopedia of Names, 1904
Alexandra blue, 1863 – The beautiful colour which has received the name of Alexandra blue,
What-Not, April 1863
Alexandra blue, 1872 – It is worth noting that ultramarine, in a very deep shade (when it borrows the name “Alexandra,” “royal,” &c., according to the period), is one of the most unbecoming colors that can be placed near the face in masses. Its brilliancy lends a yellow hue to the skin, while its deepness withholds the gray shadows cast by pale blues, which are so valuable to delicate complexions: it should be shunned alike by the florid and the fair.
Every Saturday, November 16, 1872
excerpt from: Elephant's Breath & London Smoke
A Dictionary of Color in History
edited by Deb Salisbury
Available at http://www.mantua-maker.com/
Century Cyclopedia of Names, 1904
Alexandra blue, 1863 – The beautiful colour which has received the name of Alexandra blue,
What-Not, April 1863
Alexandra blue, 1872 – It is worth noting that ultramarine, in a very deep shade (when it borrows the name “Alexandra,” “royal,” &c., according to the period), is one of the most unbecoming colors that can be placed near the face in masses. Its brilliancy lends a yellow hue to the skin, while its deepness withholds the gray shadows cast by pale blues, which are so valuable to delicate complexions: it should be shunned alike by the florid and the fair.
Every Saturday, November 16, 1872
excerpt from: Elephant's Breath & London Smoke
A Dictionary of Color in History
edited by Deb Salisbury
Available at http://www.mantua-maker.com/
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