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Posts Tagged ‘coloured wish lanterns’
Chinese lanterns colours: Purple
- Posted on: December 14th, 2010
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Our stunning, colourful, innovative, interesting, and maybe just a little bit odd at times blog continues, as we roll onto another week of finding our more about one of the colours that our Chinese lanterns are available in. Today, we’re feeling purple…. - Maybe surprisingly, purple’s complimentary colour is yellow. We say surprisingly, as the two [...]
Chinese lanterns colours: Pink
- Posted on: December 7th, 2010
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It’s not over yet! As we stock such a range of beautiful Chinese lanterns colours, the blog series in which we explore the origins and meanings of each one is continuing to go strong. This week, we’re tickled pink (hohoho). - Pink has always had strong gender connotations which continue to be used today. If a [...]
Chinese lanterns colours: Green
- Posted on: November 30th, 2010
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Continuing with our Chinese lanterns colour series, this week we’re looking at green, and what it means in our society as well as others. - In British language, the colour green is traditionally associated with jealousy and envy; its negative connotations are definitely strong in this sense! - Evergreen trees-such as pine and holly bushes- remain the [...]
Chinese lanterns colours: Yellow
- Posted on: November 23rd, 2010
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Following the success of last week’s blue-themed blog in celebration of our range of coloured Chinese lanterns, this week we go in search of meanings and theories behind the colour yellow. We hope you enjoy! - The oldest recorded use or reference to yellow in the English language is in Beowulf, in the description of a [...]





