Colours of textiles and dress
Dyed, woven, printed and worn.
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Cyan
A blue-green colour found between blue and green on the spectrum and key in printingBasic colour
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Turquoise
A blue-green colour named after a prized mineral long used for gems and decorationNamed shade · 🇮🇷 Iran +5
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Teal
A dark cyan named after the Eurasian teal bird’s blue-green head stripeNamed shade
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Blue-green
The colour between blue and green, part of the cyan familyNamed shade · 🇦🇺 Australia +3
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Tiffany Blue
A light blue-green shade trademarked by Tiffany & Co. for its boxes and brandingNamed shade
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Eton blue
A greenish blue shade linked to Eton College and early Chelsea FC coloursNamed shade · 🇦🇺 Australia
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Cyan: Claude Monet, Public domain, source
- Teal: Unknown author, CC0, source
- Blue-green: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, source
- Turquoise: Reno Chris (original), Ra'ike (derivative work), Public domain, source
- Tiffany Blue: Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0, source