I’m absolutely thrilled to announce an upcoming book from Five Rivers, Elephant’s Breath & London Smoke: Historic Colour Names, Definitions & Uses, edited by Deb Salisbury.

Deb owns and operates The Mantua-Maker, a company dedicated to the fabrication of quality, historical reproduction sewing patterns from Renaissance through Edwardian Eras. Her knowledge of historic garment fabrication, and dedication to research has resulted in this one-of-a-kind compendium that will prove indispensable to the historic costume maven.

Elephant’s Breath & London Smoke will be the first of a series of three books on historical garment terminology and manufacture by Deb, with a publication date in the early spring of 2009, 7 x 10 trade paperback format.

Keep watching the blog for updates and pre-order information about this exciting new book from Five Rivers.