facebook/Bronte-Parsonage-Museum=stream: At long last our new, specially-woven curtains - as close as we can get to those ordered by Charlotte for the room - are up! Made from union cloth and dyed crimson, Charlotte was unhappy with the colour. The good news is, we love them!
The dining room would also have been used to entertain visitors, and therefore it is the room most often described in articles and contemporary accounts. Like the bedroom directly above, this room was enlarged by Charlotte in 1850. The dining room, sometimes called the parlour, is furnished in a simple style. Elizabeth Gaskell said, 'The parlour has evidently been refurbished within the last few years, since Miss Brontë's success has enabled her to have a little more money to spend... The prevailing colour of the room is crimson... bronte/museum-and-library/inside-the-parsonage
According to forensic analysis, the room was papered both before and after Charlotte's 'gentrification', and the chosen paper is a contemporary design, in scarlet to match the curtains. Several years ago, a scrap of wallpaper was found in Branwell's Studio which can now be dated to the Brontë period. Allyson McDermott matched it with an almost identical sample - also contemporaneous with the Brontës' time - which was found inside a housemaid's cupboard at Kensington Palace. The wallpaper has been reproduced. bronteparsonage/historic-redecoration
I believe the colour was not quite what she wanted...the dying process not being so sure back then.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenHowever it tickles me how Charlotte choose crimson or scarlet for her curtains( which are never just curtains for a Bronte, but a declaration of freedom since Papa so disapproved of them lol )
Charlotte choose the color she always mentions when lambasting the Roman Catholic Church
The color is always brought in as some sign of sloth or ease with sin...fascinating she choose this very colour for such large items within her special room lol
The article mention the room's expansion in 1850...so many do not realize Emily's bed room, the former children's study, over the front door was not as small in her day as it is now. No need to wonder that she slept in such a tiny room. She didn't