I'm readying articles series about clothing production in history. Author says that white clothes were luxury item because keeping them clean was pain in ass. We can safely assume this fact was know to regular people.
We could talk about theological implications of this.
Thinking how Romans would perceive scriptures in light of above:
Lord is showing off how rich He is if He can afford to cloth everybody white on His marriage supper. Lord must be way more richer that even Emperor.
Second, clothing itself would be analogy how keeping yourself sinless is bloody hard and practically impossible to do because everybody was constantly wearing other colors. Today we use lying as analogy for impossibility of being sinless, but clothing in Roman times is far more visual example. See, nobody wears white and even if somebody can wear white it will get dirty fast.
Nativity scenes are wrong. White is color of nobles, not common people.
Article here:
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We could talk about theological implications of this.
Thinking how Romans would perceive scriptures in light of above:
Lord is showing off how rich He is if He can afford to cloth everybody white on His marriage supper. Lord must be way more richer that even Emperor.
Second, clothing itself would be analogy how keeping yourself sinless is bloody hard and practically impossible to do because everybody was constantly wearing other colors. Today we use lying as analogy for impossibility of being sinless, but clothing in Roman times is far more visual example. See, nobody wears white and even if somebody can wear white it will get dirty fast.
Nativity scenes are wrong. White is color of nobles, not common people.
Article here:
Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part IVa: Dyed in the Wool
This post is also available in audio form, thanks to the efforts of our volunteer narrator. This is the first half of the fourth part of our four part (I, II, III, IVa, IVb) look at the production …
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