[h-cost] Re: Bottle-green

2008-03-01 Thread Cozit / Liz
I've always thought of Bottle green as being somewhere between your typical green glass of the American colonial/ revolutionary period... and what those nasty flies have on them. So of course I had to look and wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn says it is dark to moderate or greyish green The

[h-cost] Re: Bottle green

2008-02-29 Thread ladybeanofbunny1
I agree that because dye processes on each type of fabric varies, it would be hard to find one exact example of what bottle green is precisely, especially since the dyes and materials used in the early 19th century were different from what is readily available today but don't quote me on that