I've always found the color "mauve" to be a little mysterious. Is it pink? Is it purple? Is it brown? Is it gray? Whenever I read about color analysis, mauve is one of the recommended colors for me (a summer), so I thought I should find out a little more about it. The first thing that I found out, is that I've been mispronouncing it my entire life. It is not "mahv", but "mov" with a long o, as in stove or clove. I'm already feeling a little more sophisticated! According to Wikipedia, mauve was named after a pale purple flower called the mallow flower. It's use didn't become popular until 1859 when a chemist trying to make a cure for malaria noticed a residue that ended up becoming a mauve dye. The 1890's are referred to as the "mauve decade" because of it's popularity! I ordered several different fabrics from Fabric Mart Fabrics to experiment with that all had mauve in the names. You ...
Ann's Sewing Experiments