Question for someone older ...

[RICHARD]

Go look up the company, if you know it? Look up ink manufacturers and look at their inventory.

[Karen]

Go look up the company, if you know it? Look up ink manufacturers and look at their inventory.

I do not remember what the name of the company was, and it may have been a bottle I inherited from my grandmother. I could draw you the bottle shape, but ink manufacturing has changed a whole lot in the last 50-100 years, and a lot of old colors have been abandoned for being unstable, not light-resistant, etc.

[Karen]

I got the answer from cybersibes! Payne's Grey - my bottle said "Lord Payne's Grey" but he was not a lord, so I do not know why it was labeled as such!

Some history:

"The color Payne's Grey is named after a British watercolorist and art lecturer, William Payne (1760--1830), who recommended the mixture to students as a more subtle alternative to a gray mixed from black and white. In Artist's Pigments: c.1600-1835 Payne's grey is stipulated to originally have been "a mixture of lake, raw sienna and indigo."

from http://painting.about.com/od/artglos...PaynesGrey.htm

[Freedom]

I came back hoping you had the answer, and yup, you do! Great news!

[Randi]

Glad you found the answer. Because of your question I looked for colors and found this:

http://colorsstartingwitha.facts.co/...startwitha.php

I have a cotton blouse/jacket that I really like the shape of, but not the color. It's pink, but not the right pink! I bought some "Rit" dye in USA, it's called "Scarlet." I wanted a dark "Crimson," that they didn't have, so I'll have a go with this one. Have you ever dyed clothes?

[Karen]

Glad you found the answer. Because of your question I looked for colors and found this:

http://colorsstartingwitha.facts.co/...startwitha.php

I have a cotton blouse/jacket that I really like the shape of, but not the color. It's pink, but not the right pink! I bought some "Rit" dye in USA, it's called "Scarlet." I wanted a dark "Crimson," that they didn't have, so I'll have a go with this one. Have you ever dyed clothes?

Not in a long time - but what you could do is add a little blue to the "scarlet" to darken it to a more Crimson shade.

[Randi]

That sounds like a good idea. I had the choice of a Navy Blue, a bit of that might have done it. We'll see! In any case, the color will be better than what it is now.

[cyber-sibes]

I got the answer from cybersibes! Payne's Grey - my bottle said "Lord Payne's Grey" but he was not a lord, so I do not know why it was labeled as such!

Some history:

"The color Payne's Grey is named after a British watercolorist and art lecturer, William Payne (1760--1830), who recommended the mixture to students as a more subtle alternative to a gray mixed from black and white. In Artist's Pigments: c.1600-1835 Payne's grey is stipulated to originally have been "a mixture of lake, raw sienna and indigo."

from http://painting.about.com/od/artglos...PaynesGrey.htm

Glad I could help - that's an interesting bit of history, Karen!