Color Names

Crewel Tan

Worn wool embroidery thread, the colour of old crewelwork on faded linen.

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Crewel Tan is a pale beige.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and very unsaturated.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Crewel Tan

Crewel embroidery

Crewel embroidery, or crewelwork, is a type of surface embroidery worked in wool. A wide variety of different embroidery stitches are used to follow a design outline applied to the fabric. The technique became popular in the 17th century.

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Tan (color)

Tan is a pale tone of brown. The name is derived from tannum used in the tanning of leather.

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crewel

Noun

  1. Worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.

Verb

  1. To make (embroidery) using the crewel method.
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tan

Symbol

  1. The trigonometric function tangent.

Symbol

  1. ISO 639-3 language code for Tangale.
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