Elephant's Breath and London Smoke: Historical Color Names, Definitions, and Uses in Fashion, Fabric and Art

Have you ever read about a Victorian dress, and wondered: "What color, exactly, is heliotrope?"Did you ever read an Elizabethan novel and say: "Did anyone really wear Puke?"When Chaucer wrote: "his eyen bright citrin" - did you wonder about what color is citrin?This book will tell you about color in history - the names of colors, when they were used, how they were used, what they looked like, and where they came from. There are dye recipes, paint ingredients, poetic language and general com...