#Color zen alternative series
Black required prodigious quantities of dyestuff and a fabric able to withstand the series of overdyes necessary to produce such a deep colour. Many of our garments are not offered in black as dense, true black is an extremely difficult colour to achieve with natural dyes, especially when dying linen. However, we know you'd like an idea of what our colours look like, so we've provided some swatches and colour information below. This makes it inconvenient for someone trying to match colours for a wedding, but it also means there's little chance of you attending an event wearing exactly the same colour as 4 other people at the event.īecause of our limited production policy, it would be impossible to keep a colour chart up to date. Although we nearly always have a range of basic colours, there is little to no chance that the blue we were using 6 months ago will be the same blue we're using now, or that we'll be using next year. To ensure the unique nature of the garments we produce, we buy limited quantities of fabrics from dye lots and limit garment production quantities. We know our customers don't want to look as though they've been stamped out of a mould.
Begay)įor more specific information on Regia Anglorum's standards, please refer to their Basic Clothing Guide -Ranks and Colour Classifications page. A high ranking eorls, jarl or baron would wear fine, beautifully patterned wools dyed deep colours such as moss green, blue and red and have fine, bleached linens. Their colour palette would include faded, inexpensive colours such as pale rusts and yellowy greens. The propriety of specific colours by class holds true for all periods- a Saxon gebur, Viking frjals or Norman villein would wear undyed wool in 'sheep' shades of creams, browns, and greys and unbleached linen. A townswoman and a lady might both wear red gowns, but the townswoman’s gown would be a earthy orange red of madder, compared to the lady’s deep crimson gown of scarlet dyed in grain.įor more information on colour use and significance in the 14th and 15th C., please see the article "Textiles, dyeing and colour use" A poor drover and a landed gentleman might each own a blue doublet or coat that of the drover would be a thin grey blue, while the gentleman’s garment would be of luminous sapphire perse. (Photo courtesy of Bryan Betts, For example, a young dandy might wear bright red, while his dignified father deep blood red or murray. In general, the young and rich wear brighter colors than the old and poor. A very general rule of thumb to follow is that the deepest, richest and truest colors are the most costly to produce and should therefore be the purview of the upper classes.
Dyebaths were reused, and the second, third and fourth baths produced increasingly paler, less expensive shades. In all cases the first bath yields the deepest, darkest and most expensive colours. These images demonstrate the wide range of colours which can be achieved with natural dyestuffs.
Whenever possible, we avoid colours with the hard metallic intensity common with chemical dyes, opting instead for softer secondary colours. In addition to primary blues, reds and greens, and we delight in the use of in between colours such as sage green, plum, gold, chestnut, salmon, rose, etc. Fabrics are dyed with modern colourfast dyes which have been carefully matched to natural dye samples.Īlthough we offer deeply saturated colours, the majority of our hues fall into the medium tones and secondary colours which are more usual with natural dyes. Every effort has been made to construct our clothing from fabric dyed in historically accurate colours.
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