23.5.09

>>Achilles said:
I purchased this beautiful forest green fabric but I must fade it.

You know, I find this funny--and don't take me wrong, I am not laughing
at>you,>>just at the irony. In the museum business, fading is one of the
great>>conservation problems we have. We do whatever we can to avoid having
our>>textiles fade and be damaged.

Achilles said:>
>LOL Agreed. I thought the same thing. I mean I would love to keep it>the color
it is, but alas my character is a peasant. If I could get>away with it I would
not fade it.

>
Well, it was new when the peasant got it, wasn't it? Start that way, and
wear the thing doing yardwork or other physical labor. Heck, after a bunch of
all day in the sun faires, it will start looking a bit seedy and worn