When I think about Jacobean and Elizabethean embroidery, I think of a limited palette of colors. After all, this was the 1600s-1700s. Surely we have many more colors available to us in these days of chemical dyeing!
Tricia Nguyen just exploded that little assumption.
http://thistle-threads.com.mytempweb.com/blog/index.php/2012/02/17th-century-historic-color-pallet/
I count ten shades of blue and almost that many in the red-pink range.
http://thistle-threads.com.mytempweb.com/blog/index.php/2012/02/glued-or-not/
I know folks who had trouble finding seven shades of a color to work designs like Twister.
http://lizartblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/twister-is-finished.html
Living 400 years ago would have advantages if you had the money and leisure time to embroider.
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
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