Adding Cochineal Dye to Starch for 16th C. Ruffs

[lifeofglamour]

Thanks to the enraged Protestants of the 16th Century, we know that the great ruffs of that era were dyed a rainbow of colors. According to Philip Stubbes, in his lengthy (and hilarious) polemic The Anatomie of Abuses the great monstrous Ruffes were "of all colours and hewes, as White, Redde, Blewe, Purple, and the like

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[learnteach]

Wow.

Of course.

You're a genius. Keep doing it!

[trystbat]

LOVE.ING.IT!!!!

[dame_cordelia]

Oooh oooh oooh. I likes it, I does.

[dakini_bones]

Purple! I likey!

[helblonde]

Sweet!