COLOUR SCHEMES.
SCOTTISH CROFTERS' DYES. More artistic colour schemes are being devised for the Scottish crofters w r lio have hitherto woven their fleecy woollies and travel rugs in the four natural colours of the moorland sheep—almost black, brown, fawn and the off-white tones. The dyes used will not be vegetable colouring, as in the case of some of the famous Scottish tweeds, which in one instance is no longer made in the same tone of crottle brown, but in a paler, more becoming ehade. This is because the lichen used for the dye which grew in profusion closely around the crofters' homes has been used up. Incidentally, it is the crottle which gives this tweed its distinctive moorland pungency.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 16
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