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Dyeing Clothes of the Common People ion Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
Dyeing Clothes of the Common People ion Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
S. Peachey (ed)Paperback, 116 pp. Richly illustrated. 2013 Stuart Press
This book identifies the colours used in the clothing of the common people in England in the Elizabethan and Early Stuart period [1558-1660] using inventories, wills, pictures and surviving examples. It then examines the dyestuffs used to create those colours for common people, the equipment used in dyeing and the methods of dying.