- Good afternoon!
I apologize for being off-topic, but I'm curious about the colours of men's
tunics in Eastern Slavic lands somewhere between the 8th and the 11th
century. I know modern folklore tends to dress Russians in white tunics with
red trim, but I was wondering about any other colours in that particular
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> I apologize for being off-topic, but I'm curious about the colours of men'sSorry for the delay in replying - I'm slightly behind in my email.
> tunics in Eastern Slavic lands somewhere between the 8th and the 11th
> century. I know modern folklore tends to dress Russians in white tunics with
> red trim, but I was wondering about any other colours in that particular
White was a fairly popular color for men's tunics, and indeed the
undertunic would normally have been white.
Looking through a few of my books, though, I see illuminations of men
wearing tunics that are red, yellow, dark and light blue, brown, sort
of an off-pink, and green, with contrasting trim from the same group
While this may say more about the colors available for painting than
what they actually used for clothing, I have seen a very similar color
palette used for ecclesiastical embroideries, so these colors were
both available and used for fabric items as well.
I think they're probably all safe for clothing. Especially the
red. Red is beautiful, after all... :)
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- I tend to look at questions like this as follows - what would
they have had around to dye the fabric with? Or, in the case
of "white" not dye it with. I tend to be very leery of true
"white", just because I'm unsure of period bleaching techniques
If I remember correctly, there is a CA kicking around on dying.
I'd say, check that out and see if you can cross reference with
some resource which will tell you if that particular plant was
period to the Russia you want to hale from.
Just some thoughts.
- In a message dated 1/18/2002 7:39:26 PM Central Standard Time,
> I tend to look at questions like this as follows - what wouldVegetable dyes mostly, but also expensive cochineal (an insect giving a red
> they have had around to dye the fabric with?
dye), and dyed fabrics from China, Persia, Byzantium, wool from England, etc.
The native dyes probably weren't much different from what was used in
Northern Europe in general.
Predslava (reference-less since the library's had to be fed -- it swallowed
back all "my" books!)
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