Once a week in the Georgian Era sailors had a laundry day where they washed and embroidered their clothes. (I was reading The Ionian Mission and it was on Tuesday I think, but it varied ship-to-ship.) The embriodered shore-going rig was kind of a status symbol; more embroidery = manlier sailor or so I heard...but the image of several hundred sailors embroidering was kind of too good to pass up.
just wanted an excuse to colour something insanely bright and saturated.
(also updating my blog BE PROUD OF ME PEOPLE)
SO PROUD
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