Black rose symbolism
{{Short description|Fictional symbol with different meanings}}
{{more citations needed|date=December 2022}}
Black roses do not naturally exist but have various symbolic meanings in different contexts.
Flowers
The flowers commonly called black roses do not really exist in said color, instead they actually have a dark shade, such as the "Black Magic", "Barkarole", "Black Beauty" and "Baccara" varieties. They can be artificially colored as well.{{Cite web |last=Wright |first=Jacob |date=21 September 2017 |title=Black Flower Names |url=https://www.gardenguides.com/123265-black-flower-names.html |access-date=10 Dec 2022 |website=Garden Guides}}{{Cite web |last=Seal |first=Jann |date=15 November 2022 |title=How to Make Black Roses |url=https://www.gardenguides.com/13428554-how-to-make-black-roses.html |access-date=10 Dec 2022 |website=Garden Guides}}
In the language of flowers, roses have many different meanings. Black roses symbolize ideas such as hatred, despair, death or rebirths.[https://www.arenaflowers.co.in/blog/symbolism-and-meaning-of-black-rose/ Language of Flowers: Black Rose]
Anarchism
{{See also|Anarchist symbolism}}
File:Burgstädt2606 – Fronttranspi.jpg
Black Rose Books is the name of the Montreal anarchist publisher and small press imprint headed by the libertarian-municipalist and anarchist Dimitrios Roussopoulos. One of the two anarchist bookshops in Sydney is Black Rose Books which has existed in various guises since 1982.{{cite web | url=http://blackrosebooks.org/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212191440/http://blackrosebooks.org/ | archive-date=2013-12-12 | title=Black Blog | Black Rose Anarchist Library & Social Centre }}
The Black Rose was the title of a respected journal of anarchist ideas published in the Boston area during the 1970s,{{cite book |last=Goodway |first=D. |title=For Anarchism (RLE Anarchy) |publisher=Taylor & Francis |series=Routledge Library Editions: Anarchy |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-135-03756-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jvty1g6zKWMC&pg=PA5 | access-date=17 March 2018 |page=5}} as well as the name of an anarchist lecture series addressed by notable anarchist and libertarian socialists (including Murray Bookchin and Noam Chomsky) into the 1990s.
Black Rose Anarchist Federation is a political organization that was founded in 2014, with a few local and regional groups in the United States.[https://blackrosefed.org/ website of the Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra (BRRN)]
See also
References
{{reflist}}
- Wilkins, Eithne. The rose-garden game; a tradition of beads and flowers, [New York] Herder and Herder, 1969.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Black Rose (Symbolism)}}