She made the rag doll on left for me a long time ago. I made Olive, on the right. She made Olive's beautiful new dress. Olive's dress fabric is a Civil War repro fabric. The color is a bluish green. Mom told me that this was a common shade of green because the yellow became fugitive from the original green, leaving more blue. Sometimes the blue would fade, leaving a poison green tone. Also, the print is called a foulard. Foulards had a diagonal repeating pattern and were very popular during the 19th century. |