Comments on: 1 Red petticote http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2007/07/22/1-red-petticote/ The blog for Plimoth Plantation's 17 Century embroidered jacket project. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:10:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Rebecca http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2007/07/22/1-red-petticote/#comment-574 Rebecca Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:32:44 +0000 #comment-574 In the movie Pride and Prejudice that A $ E made, the main heroine wore a red petticoat in one scene that got very dirty with mud. The film pointed it out very clearly and a comment was made about how dirty she got it. This kind of makes sense to me after reading your comments about red being an expensive color to dye. It was also one of the first colors of intense color that paint was made. That's why barns were painted red. In the movie Pride and Prejudice that A $ E made, the main heroine wore a red petticoat in one scene that got very dirty with mud. The film pointed it out very clearly and a comment was made about how dirty she got it. This kind of makes sense to me after reading your comments about red being an expensive color to dye. It was also one of the first colors of intense color that paint was made. That’s why barns were painted red.

]]> By: Carol http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2007/07/22/1-red-petticote/#comment-573 Carol Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:26:06 +0000 #comment-573 Hi So do you have any idea what they ment by mingled? Was it one color in the warp and another in the weft? Woven from threads that were space dyed? Thanks Carol Hi
So do you have any idea what they ment by mingled?
Was it one color in the warp and another in the weft?
Woven from threads that were space dyed?
Thanks
Carol

]]> By: Chris Berry http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2007/07/22/1-red-petticote/#comment-571 Chris Berry Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:39:03 +0000 #comment-571 Red was expensive to dye. See \"A Perfect Red\", a wonderful (and readable) book about red fabric dyeing by Amy Butler Greenfield. Red was expensive to dye. See \”A Perfect Red\”, a wonderful (and readable) book about red fabric dyeing by Amy Butler Greenfield.

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