Originally Posted by
sewbizgirl
Jan, the pinks you are seeing in my brown on the far right are actually deep burgundy! So hard to get colors right in pictures. But there were lots of pinks in civil war era fabrics. They called them "double pinks" if they were pink on pink.
https://www.google.com/search?q=civi...h=583&dpr=1.09
The fabrics you describe are what I call "tonals" or "blenders". TOT is right, too.
Yes you are right on both counts! When I dismissed pinks, I was thinking of another quilt I am working on that is circa early 1700's. That's when my ancestors settled here. No pinks yet! But yes pinks in the Civil War. Sorry. And yes, the word I was trying to think of was Tonals. I found some nice dark browns. I am going to PM you...