Internet Colors - Set of 1035

Lincoln Green Color 539 - #195905

Lincoln green is the colour of dyed woolen cloth associated with Robin Hood and his merry men in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire. 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) or dyers' broom, Genista tinctoria. "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 color name in English was in 1510.