Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond: Alternate History Stories

Volume 17 #14: Scraps of Fashion

Previous / Next Scraps of Fashion Written by Lisa Satterlund Something to keep in mind when writing fashion into your 1632verse stories is that the down-timers don’t think their fashions are ugly. From the point of view of the twentieth century, the up-timers will see many of the garments the highest classes wear as stiff, […]

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Grantvile Gazette 5 #11: Dyes and Mordants

Previous / Next Dyes And Mordants Lisa Satterlund I. Introduction and brief history of dyeing.  By 1630, human beings had been using plants, animals and minerals to change the natural color of plant and animal fibers for at least five thousand years. The oldest written record of dye use goes back to 2,600 BC in […]

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