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Gidget...So glad to see you again...yes I will agree that most of the gentry would be wearing comfortable clothes that woudn't hinder them being able to work easily. I also believe that hats would have been worn by many different Pernese for their everyday comfort...but if they wore hats for everyday...would they also have them for fancier occasions? So many different societies developed fancy head coverings...it has me wondering if Pern did as well?
For some reason I see a lot of Green being worn in the everyday clothing...mostly because I think it would be extremely easy to get a hold of even for out of the way holders to use.
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In DF when Fax is showing F'lar and F'nor to his ladies it is noted that "[s]ome of the covey had not all winter long made much use of water, judging from the amount of sweet oil gone rancid in their hair." I take this to imply that their heads were bare. I know Fax was trying to insult F'lar, but I don't think that that applies to the appearance of his women. On a matter of colour, it states that Gemma was "blue-gowned" and that outside "there was not a gowned figure to be seen". I know DF has bred continuity errors with later books, but the written word is the written word. Perhaps for everyday wear amongst the holders and farmers etc? Workwear, perhaps, but not finery for weddings and Gathers? After all, people mainly ward off bad luck when something momentous is happening. |
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I think we can state with surety that if hats were fashionable, Pona and company would have been wearing them!
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Gidget and Brenda...I think that both of you are probably right. I do remember several places in the books where a womans braided hair is mentioned...along with the extreme lengths of their hair. I think that perhaps the beauty of their hair and possible ornaments worn it is, would have been more Pern style than any head coverings...especially for any of the special occasions.
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Brenda: the same argument goes for Groghe's sons and fosterlings.
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As to my comment from DD: Pg.49 (USA paperback)when Sorka exits the shuttle: ""funny bluish bushes" and "the bushes were more blue than green".
The hats used in the crosssing were plastic "coolie" hats, as remembered from one of the colonist. This is in the collection of shorts in the USA printing which I believed was called "The Crossing" (which also contained the story of "Red's Ford"). |
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They where in the short story Dolphin's Bell I've read one copy which had images in too.
I recall something too. it also related to RoP: Something to the remark that you never knew when something used on old earth can used on Pern. CoPFF: Dolphin's Bell. Also some of the workers atLanding they used a version to keep cool while working in the heat there, Its when Robinton and his jouryman I can't spell names tonight! (I can think/say the name just can't spell it ![]()
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Hats - especially "straw hats" are not too hard to make. Here I would use flax (looks like ten foot high grass) and flat-braid it, then coil the braids up and sew them in a spiral. When I lived on Norfolk Island they did the same thing with a tough grass off the cliffs. I can see field-workers and anybody who is going to be outside wearing something like that, along with homespun, brownish or greyish or cream-coloured tunic and loose pants. Whatever is the natural colour of the fibre that they are using.
Good clothes were obviously too precious to waste - have you noticed how often they are recycled? Somebody turns up - like Menolly or Piemur - and the Headwoman makes straight for a chest, which has spare clothes in. Nobody's mentioned mordant. It doesn't matter how bright your plant dye is if it doesn't stay on the fibre. We don't know what the Pernese might have had to fix dyes with, or what colours the mordant might have worked on. It makes sense that easily made natural dyes might be different between Earth and Pern too. It's not a matter of whether or not our science applies, it's a matter of what's available. Red is mentioned as hard to make, but it was one of the three natural available dyes used by the Maori before settlement by Europeans with all their trade-goods. The colours were red, black, and yellow. Green and blue were not available at all. |
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V'yon...you make some very interesting points...I agree that most all of the smaller holds would be using natural dyes for most all of their clothings. I could see a small hold buying pakages of harder to obtain dye colors from the traveling traders, to use on some of their gather clothes. I could see a holders wife dying home made threads, and using them to embroider fancy stitches on the families gather clothes.
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So would the brains of beast, in tanning, and or dying too.
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So how do they get leather in Harper blue?
I'm sure the traders would carry dyed goods, threads, laces and braids. We just haven't heard about them because Anne's protagonists are more interested in bubbly pies and dancing to Harper music. But I think I'll leave leather dyeing to the drudges! |
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The Wikky article doesn't mention that alum is used as a retardant in smoking tobacco
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Gidget...that was amazingly interesting. You can really see dyeing leather working...especially on Pern. Thanks, this all added very nicely to Pern's everyday reality for me.
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The alum would be used as a mordant - i.e. to fix the colour so that it would not fade or wash out.
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I know beyond any shadow of doubt that I have no knowledge of tanning or dying leather/animal hides in any form, however I'd like to make mention of a speculation. In Dragonseye (Red Star Rising), Iantine monologued a bit about an early artist who had compiled a list of what native flora produced which pigments best for painting. If someone had that insight early on where the procedures and materials from Terra were still fresh in their minds, then its possible and even likely that Pernese materials for producing various colored dyes for leather and linen could have been compiled as well. sure after 2,000+ years the origins might have been lost, but knowing that Fellis produced a certain color and say Klah leaves another wouldn't be that hard to propogate over the generations.
Basically I remembered a radio article at one point how current artists were bemoaning how their pigments were never as true or vivid as the classic painters, then a note made that the main ingredients of the older paints were Lead, Cobalt, and other elements that prolonged exposure to resulted in Death. |
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ghost: van Gogh used yellows based on chromium for his sunflower pictures. His pigments have oxidised which is why his flowers are now more green than yellow.
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I can understand that, basically it was an example of times changing etc...
as far as the pigment/dye thing I agree that one item for a pigment is not necessarily good for a dye. what I was saying is that it could have been likely that a colonist, or early tanner when the knowledge of procedures from Terra still existed, could have compiled a list of indigenous items that could produce the colors needed for producing specific colors as a dye. Basically like Iantine had available to him from his education at Hall Domaize. dyes rather than pigments obviously, but considering all the busy little bees at the beginning of colonization, combined with people bemoaning the loss of this item of Terra or that, the possibility could very well exist. |
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Perfect sense indeed...
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Also the associated problems with copying (for example an apprentice copying elder as alder - not that I'm saying that those two were definitively on Pern) and hides disappearing.
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Oh yes, I think I can safely say we have experience with that in researching Terran archives; which is comparable.
I have said it before (on old KT): long ago, when there weren't many people who could wrote (think monks) and read, the handwriting was clear and regular. Then people startied writing themselves and we get all kinds of trouble, bad handwriting, not enough knowledge, no (or not enough) grammer rules and bad copying etc. Then that disappears somewhat when people get more education but the trouble is virtually solved after the printing press was invented. The above of course does not only apply on the current subject but to all subjects that involve the written word in any way. How about: check cattle, if necessary inject beasts against check cattle, if necessary reject beasts ... (knowledge lost) and I'm sure we can think of many examples.
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Check cattle if necessary, inject beets. (A silly example, but plausible enough.) Cheek cattle, if necessary inject/reject beasts. (Leaves a reader wondering what the blazes "cheek cattle" are.) |
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Not to speak of:
Che (mothhole) cattle if necessary (stained leather blotch) inj (rest missing) I get the impression that's the state of many of the older records at the beginning of the ninth pass. I can sympathise. I was recently given two ancestral diaries that have been under a house in Auckland for sixty years or more. While the top one is legible, in hard-to-read handwriting it degenerates into faded ink on foxed paper, and then faded ink on foxed, mouldy paper. And did Anne ever discover that the mould on records is dangerous? It can cause eye infections and lung diseases. |
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Apparently it was just a very bad stye which wouldn't go away. If modern Doctors couldn't work out what caused it, then it's unlikely that Pernese would know. The cousin who had that particular problem had to finish her thesis in the Science Department of the University, using a shielded chamber of some kind for her manuscripts.
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I dunno... I only worked with the Harper Hall records and those were kept meticulously under top conditions. It only were the records in the abandoned Weyrs that decayed and were in part destroyed. Fortunately only a small part as hides stored under dry conditions keep good for a long, long time.
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