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Shelley Jackson has written a thought-provoking meditation on the colour mauve for Cabinet magazine. A quote: "What is mauve? That pale violet that makes certain flowers seem to fluoresce at dusk, or the sullen, sullied rose of Victorian lampshades and mourning dresses? A cooler magenta, a gooier violet? Mauve, the color of ish, is defined most clearly by hedging negatives: not quite pink, not quite purple." Read the rest here. Shown above is Sir William Perkin’s original mauve dye, 1856 (Science Museum collection).