Profile Series: Deb Salisbury

We're pleased to present the second author Five Rivers published, Deb Salisbury, editor of Elephant's Breath & London Smoke: Historical Colour Names, Definitions & Uses .

Q: As a little girl, you used to make dresses for your sister's dolls, which led to an adult love of historic fashion and the recreating of it, so that in 1994 you established Mantua-Maker Historical Sewing Patterns. Was that journey a conscious one, or something that simply evolved over time?


DEB: My costuming career evolved o...