I'm having a colour dilemma. For my Tudor gown I plan to use a dark blueish-green (known as popinjay in period) but I can't decide what colour to use for the foresleeves. I know gold would match, but it's so overdone. What else could match with a sprucey green?
Something in the rust tones might look nice with the bluegreen. Depending on how blue or green you could go from a bright rust/nearly orange to a warm nearly brown tone.
Silver would work as would certain shades of grey. Burgandy would look good as well, but with the green - you would want to be careful of a 'Christmas-y" look.
I'd try differents shades of yellow as well - more mustard/brown, if you want to stay away from the 'gold' family.
I agree with Anna that a rich russet would look splendid! Or copper for somethnig metallic.
Try terracotta or clay as an option.
Possibly a period-acceptable rosey pink?
I have to ask Internal sleeve or pull back? Because if you find an awesome damask like these and then pearled would be awesome!
If I were doing this the pull back would be fur or a velvet/een to make the most of my internal sleeve.
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I really like this one!
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And this one, I am getting this in the purple/gold/silver version!
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I'm with guinea: a period pink would be beautiful (particularly with your coloring!). I also really love the creamy colors Cilean posted. What about a brown? Either a beautiful deep chocolate, or a lighter acorn color? Oh! How about pewter grey? Or better yet, a changing-color grey/gold taffeta? Silkbaron (http://www.silkbaron.com) is a great place to drool over colors...
Fabrics.com has a great tool called a Design Wall (http://www.fabric.com/DesignWall.aspx?productSKU=247277a7-a880-4a43-807e-301f66a9f9f3&categoryID=591bd631-f746-4f04-bf58-3f232ade3f57)
I played around a bit with some of the colors mentioned here, and assuming the color closest to what I could find like Popinjay. The samples I chose aren't exactly Tudor, I don't think, but they let you play around with some ideas anyway. It's a fun toy I think. :)
*edit* Shoot! Looks like the design wall is empty of all but one sample this morninig as I look. :'( Well, you get the idea anyway.