Sienna Saturday - May 23rd

Hi all,

Have I mentioned that I love looking things up in the dictionary? And now that we have great dictionary resources on the internet, there is no excuse for not learning unfamiliar words. That said, after I read the sienna definition, I had to look up ferruginous.

sienna si⋅en⋅na  [see-en-uh] –noun
1. a ferruginous earth used as a yellowish-brown pigment (raw sienna) or, after roasting in a furnace, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt sienna).
2. the color of such a pigment.

Origin:
1750-60, "earth of Siena," from a city in central Italy,
where the coloring material was first produced.

ferruginous  [fuh-roo-juh-nuhs] –adjective

1. Geology. iron-bearing: ferruginous clays.
2. of the color of iron rust.


Permanent Etsy Store Links:

Scheri's Abstract (top left)
Le Petit Poulailler (top right)
evarose1900 (middle left)
fancyfarmdestash (middle right)
Janette Maher (bottom left)
Honeytree Photography (bottom right)

Turquoise Tuesday - May 19th

tur⋅quoise  [tur-koiz, -kwoiz] –noun

1. Turquois, an opaque mineral. A basic hydrous copper aluminum phosphate often containing a small amount of iron, sky-blue or greenish-blue in color.

2. Turquoise blue. a greenish blue or bluish green.


Origin:
1350–1400; Turkish (stone), From French turquoise meaning "Turkish"; the original material from the south slopes of the Al-Mirsah-Kuh Mountains (Iran), found its way to Europe via Turkey.

Related:
Odontolite. O*don"to*lite\, n. [Odonto- + -lite.]
Odontolite is a turquoise simulant derived from fossil bones, most commonly the teeth of mastodon and other large species of mammals.

-- from www.dictionary.com and www.mindat.org.


Enjoy today's Etsy finds in turquoise! And, follow that link to Odontolite...it's a cool article about bone turquiose and mastodon teeth. Who knew?

-- Cheryl
ladybugsewingstudio.etsy.com


Permanent Etsy Store Links:

sweettweets (top left)
vesselsandwares, Jeanette Zeis (top right)
Tanis Fiber Arts (middle left)
yumiyumi, Aline Yamada (middle right)
ellecools (bottom left)
ExoticFlavour, Amanda Yu (bottom right)

Magenta Monday - May 18th

ma⋅gen⋅ta  [muh-jen-tuh] –noun
1. fuchsin.
2. a purplish red.

Origin:
After Magenta, a town in Northern Italy, West of Milan. The French and Sardinians defeated the Austrians in Magenta in 1859. The dye used to produce this color was discovered the year of the battle.

Related:
fuch⋅sin  [fook-sin] –noun
1. a greenish, water-soluble, solid, coal-tar derivative, obtained by the oxidation of a mixture of aniline and the toluidines, that forms deep-red solutions: used chiefly as a dye.

-- from www.dictionary.com


Permanent Etsy Store Links:

Wooly Knits N Bits (top left)
Love Art Works, Kristin Love (top right)
myssticwynd, Karen (middle left)
VividEarthDesigns, Christina Cortino (middle right)
Tisserande Handwoven Textiles (bottom left)
Zygopsyche (bottom right)

Enjoy!

-- Cheryl
Ladybug Sewing Studio