In 1578, Bartolomeus Wittich from Naumburg (living Cieszyn) gave 100 guldens (sic!) to the poorhouse to enable buying a black cloth for its residents. There is no information how much of it has been bought but it is known that there was about 7 ells per man and 5 ells per women.
I think that fact of buying black textile for those poor shows low price of it.
Black Cloth - do You mean dyed cloth, or natural "black-gray" cloth, wich was undayed (the color was naturaly from the sheep)?
OdpowiedzUsuńIf black and gray - ok, I am plased to hera it,
but, if you mean dyed in black, i am confused and thrilled.
In my opinion, there is no such cheap dye-stuff, to make a cheap, dyed cloth (even though, you could just dye gray cloth by kork of oak or alder, but it will still be something like "black" - brown-black, gray-black and so on).
My opionion - natural, gray-black wool :)
It depends on source. One tells that black dye is very expensive. But another one shows it as much cheaper than I thought.
UsuńI don't think it was black sheep wool, however, maybe the price was dependent on color-saturation. There is no way to find it out for sure.
That's surely true - every colour (maybe except royal purple) was available for every social class, but the intensity, strength and fastness of colours varied - the most expensive ones were bright and durable, the cheapest faded very quickly.
OdpowiedzUsuńI think this mentioned black may have been a dark brownish-grey from mixed dyes.