“Pinks, beiges and flesh tints.”

Italian hose, 1500-1510)

Doe’s Belly

Brown Bread

Merry Widow

Amorous Desire

Kiss-me-Darling

Lost Time

Sad Friend

Monkey’s Smile

Dying Monkey

Mortal Sin

Colour of Hell

Sick Spaniard

and my personal favorite:  Resuscitated Corpse

This is not quite our period, (the image is), but I just can’t resist. These are the names of colors given to hose in a dyer’s advertisement from Neufchateau in Lorraine, (printed in 1607), according to “A History of Hand Knitting” by Richard Rutt, Bishop of Leicester, (pub. B T Batsford Ltd, 1989.)