Compleat Anachronist, Issue 158
January 2013
Medieval Views of Color

Kathleen Keeler

Figure 1:

Left: Green grape vines, brown fields, and blue lakes.	Right: White truck and black pickup, behind them a white shop with a green awning and a light red building with a red tile roof.
In the picture on the right, color is much more useful for pointing out objects within the scene

Figure 2:

Pattern without dyes, woven with handspun undyed white and dark gray yarns.

Figure 3:

Dark dress with bright trim.

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Figure 6:

Beautiful Clothing without Expensive Dyes. The Cloth used is brown, tan and white.