Race around the Parthenon (SMALL) Throw Blanket bysu_g

‘Race around the Parthenon (SMALL)' (https://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/7370021): Continuous racing horses and riders with Greek keys in red, blue and black (see below) on a 'marble' off-white (#f8f5ec) ground. Entry in Spoonflower's 'Off to the Horse Races' Design Challenge. © Su Schaefer 2018 ~ with thanks to my sources: (1) S. Bird (British Museum) for the drawing of the horses + riders from the north frieze cavalcade on the Parthenon, from which this has been adapted (although the coloring-in is mine); and (2) Jenkins for the color scheme, who writes: "Early Greek architectural polychromy probably experimented with a wider range of colours but, by the fifth century BC, the most popular [were] red, blue, and gold applied as leaf. These were combined with the reserved ground of the white marble, thus adding a fourth colour. Red will have been a naturally occurring or artificially produced pigment such as oxide of iron. Blue was usually a copper silicate, either naturally occurring, as in volcanic rocks, or manufactured. The colour was the deep, rich, inky blue of lapis lazuli and is sometimes called Egyptian blue. Gold was the warm yellow tone of pure unalloyed metal, sometimes enhanced by an undercoat of red or blue (bole)"; both in Jenkins, Ian. . Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP; 2006, pp. 37, 99 [© 2006 The Trustees of the British Museum]. Original: Line art, basic repeat. [Currently set @ Fabric: 480 ppi; can be resized – Spoonmail me or comment before ordering]