“Pinks, beiges and flesh tints.”
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.)