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Line 3: [[File:The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, 2 Frontispiece.png|thumb|Frontispiece of Howard Pyle's 1883 ''The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood'' showing tunic and leggings approximating a ''Lincoln green'' shade<ref>{{cite book |last1=Woolfson |first1=Michael Mark |title=Colour: How We See It And How We Use It |date=2016 |publisher=World Scientific |isbn=9781786340870 |page=98-99}}</ref>]] '''Lincoln green''' is the colour of dyed woollen cloth formerly originating in [[Lincoln, England|Lincoln]], [[England]], a major cloth town during the [[high Middle Ages]]. The [[Dyer (occupation)|dyers]] of Lincoln, known for colouring wool with [[Woad|woad (''Isatis tinctoria'')]] to give it a strong blue shade,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Evans |first1=Gavin |title=The story of colour: an exploration of the hidden messages of the spectrum |date=2017 |publisher=Michael O'Mara Books |isbn=9781782436911 |quote="Lincoln...specialized in woollen cloths dyed with woad blue."}}</ref> created the eponymous ''Lincoln green'' by overdyeing this blue wool with yellow [[Reseda luteola|weld (''Reseda luteola'')]]<ref>[http://www.alchemy-works.com/reseda_luteola.html ''Reseda luteola''].</ref> or [[Genista tinctoria|dyers' broom, ''Genista tinctoria'']].<ref>[http://www.florilegium.org/files/TEXTILES/green-art.html Stefan's Florilegium].</ref> Other colours like "[[Coventry blue]]" and "Kendal green" were linked to the dyers of different English towns.<ref name="Nares1888">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Lincoln Green |last1=Nares |first1=Robert |last2=Halliwell-Phillipps |first2=J. O. (James Orchard) |last3=Wright |first3=Thomas |author1-link=Robert Nares |author2-link=James Halliwell-Phillipps |author3-link=Thomas Wright (antiquarian) |encyclopedia=A Glossary; or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, etc. |date=1888 |volume=2 |publisher=Reeves and Turner |location=London |page=514 |edition=New |url=https://archive.org/details/glossaryorcollec02nareuoft/page/514}}</ref> ''Lincoln green'' is often associated with [[Robin Hood]] and his [[Merry Men]] in [[Sherwood Forest]], [[Nottinghamshire]].<ref name=Child>[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch117.htm ''The Child Ballads 117''] [[A Gest of Robyn Hode]] (c 1450) "Whan they were clothed in Lyncolne grene"</ref> ==History== The first recorded use of ''Lincoln green'' as a colour name in [[English language|English]] was in 1510.<ref>{{Cite | last1=Maerz | first1=Aloys John Line 19: | location=New York | oclc=1150631 | }}</ref> {{Clarify|date=April 2021}} By the late sixteenth century, Lincoln green was a thing of the past. [[Michael Drayton]] provided a sidenote in his ''[[Poly-Olbion]]'' (published 1612): "Lincoln anciently dyed the best ''green''<!--italics in original--> in England."<ref name="Nares1888" /> Cloth of Lincoln green was more pleasing than undyed shepherd's gray cloth: "When they were clothed in Lyncolne grene they kest away their gray", according to ''A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode'', ca. 1510,<ref>Noted in ''The Journal for Weavers, Spinners, and Dyers,'' '''158''' (April 1991).</ref> and Lincoln green betokened an old-fashioned forester even in the fancy dress of [[Edmund Spenser]]'s ''[[The Faery Queene]]'': {{Poem quote|title=[[Edmund Spenser|Spenser]]: ''[[Faerie Queene]]'' 6.2.5, lines 6-7| | |||