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While it was not the only acceptable color, white had already been a popular color choice for a wedding gown for centuries (Ginsburg)

Their inception owes much to the work of Sir William Henry Perkin (1838-1907), who discovered the first famous artificial colour by accident in 1856 when he was a student at the Royal College of Chemistry in London

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Aim for a knot that is not chunky, but instead small, flat, and horizontal to be in line with the straight-bar lacing

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