Regia Anglorum - Basic Clothing Guide

Ranks and Colour Classifications

1. Undyed Wool. Cream, full range of browns, grey. Combinations of these in weaves. Probably unbleached Linen. Faded middle rank dyes
2. More Expensive Colours:
   • Weld - Yellow, yellowy green: Moss green.
   • Wild Madder - Salmony pink, Orange/brown, Bleached Linen. For richer members of middle rank, more intense colours of madder from cultivated plants
   • Woad Blue
   • Combinations of the above , e.g. leaf green, bottle green.
3. More expensive cloth and imported colours:
   • All of the above with silk trimming, wimples and bonnets.
   • Small amounts of kermes red (cardinal red)
4. All of the above. Shellfish purple. Silk garments

For more information see: http://members.regia.org/dyes.htm

Last updated 19 February, 2004. Article by Regia Anglorum 2004.
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