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:''For the area of Leeds, see Lincoln Green''. Lincoln green is the colour of dyed woollen cloth associated with Robin Hood and his merry men in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire.〔(''The Child Ballads 117'' ) A Gest of Robyn Hode (c 1450) "Whan they were clothed in Lyncolne grene"〕 The dyers of Lincoln, a cloth town in the high Middle Ages, produced the cloth by dyeing it with woad (''Isatis tinctoria'') to give it a strong blue, then overdyeing it yellow with weld (''Reseda luteola'')〔(''Reseda luteola'' ).〕 or dyers' broom, ''Genista tinctoria''.〔(Stefan's Florilegium ).〕 "Coventry blue" and "Kendall green" were also colours linked with the dyers of English towns. The colour is a deep warm olive green. The first recorded use of ''Lincoln green'' as a colour name in English was in 1510. By the late sixteenth century, Lincoln green was a thing of the past, for Michael Drayton provided a sidenote in his ''Poly-Olbion'' (published 1612): "Lincoln anciently dyed the best ''green'' in England."〔Noted in Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and Thomas Wright, ''A Glossary, Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names and Allusions...'' (1901), ''s.v.'' "Lincoln green".〕 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,〔Noted in ''The Journal for Weavers, Spinners, and Dyers,'' 158 (April 1991).〕 and Lincoln green betokened an old-fashioned forester even in the fancy dress of Edmund Spenser's ''The Faery Queene'': "All in a woodman's jacket he was clad The popular ballad printed in the eighteenth-century compilations ''Robin Hood's Garland'' offers an unexpected picture of Robin as he presented himself at court: He cloathed his men in ''Lincoln green'' The distinction was in the cost of scarlet, which was dyed with kermes, derived from an insect native to the Mediterranean. Lincoln scarlet, from its imported dyestuff, was more expensive than Lincoln green. In 1198 the Sheriff of Lincoln bought ninety ells (about 112 yards) of scarlet cloth for £30 (6s 8d per ell); although the cloth was a finely finished fabric, its high price was almost certainly due mainly to the extremely costly dye-stuff, ''greyne'' (graine)〔Graine is the dye-stuff, linguistically unrelated to "green".〕 from Kermes or scarlet grain. In 1182 the Sheriff of Lincoln bought Scarlet at 6s 8d/ell, Green and Blanchet both at 3s/ell and Gray at approximately 1s 8d/ell. By 1216 three guilds controlling the cloth trade were established in Lincoln, the Weavers', Dyers', and Fullers' guilds.〔Sir Francis Hill, ''Medieval Lincoln'', 1948, from a publication of the Pipe Roll Society; noted at (Stefan's Florilegium ).〕 ==In popular culture== Sir Walter Scott in his 1820 classical novel Ivanhoe mentioned Lincoln green three times - Chapters VII: "“One of these, a stout well-set yeoman, arrayed in Lincoln green, having twelve arrows stuck in his belt,” 〔Excerpt From: Walter Scott. “Ivanhoe: A Romance.” iBooks. "〕 Also in Chapters XV and XXXIII. The colour appears used in the dystopian novel ''Shades of Grey 1: The Road to High Saffron'' by Jasper Fforde, in which shades of green — and Lincoln green in particular — have narcotic effects.〔Jasper Fforde, ''Shades Of Grey'', 2009, noted at ().〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lincoln green」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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