But those cheaper blues changed colour over time:) That's why we have a number of greenish brown backgrounds;) The blue in inks was much more light fast. I think it is mostly down to materials. I find a lot of blue in textiles for example.
As for how to find, I've been doing a really wide net search for phrases that might pop up in wills and inventories. item/iten/ytem and then the object. It's turned up a few gems and a few "bugger can't they just let us look at the whole page at least" snippets in google books.
I have found a few other gems in google books by looking for buckram. I found one of the Marys' wardrobe accounts from when she was a princess (Henry's sister/daughter/neice can't recall which.) Also a list of materials used for festivals. I think I tried a couple of variations on the term.
Because I live just so far away from Europe and am surrounded by sea for that matter I've pretty much not bothered about ILL from Europe. I can try with my library but also being a local rather than University library it's less likely to happen too.
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Re: Blue
Date: 2007-08-24 01:11 am (UTC)As for how to find, I've been doing a really wide net search for phrases that might pop up in wills and inventories. item/iten/ytem and then the object. It's turned up a few gems and a few "bugger can't they just let us look at the whole page at least" snippets in google books.
I have found a few other gems in google books by looking for buckram. I found one of the Marys' wardrobe accounts from when she was a princess (Henry's sister/daughter/neice can't recall which.) Also a list of materials used for festivals. I think I tried a couple of variations on the term.
Because I live just so far away from Europe and am surrounded by sea for that matter I've pretty much not bothered about ILL from Europe. I can try with my library but also being a local rather than University library it's less likely to happen too.