Real Paint and Varnish Company Real Paints Manufacturer of Traditional paints

Historic and Traditional Paint Colours

We can manufacture any of the following historic and traditional colours for repair or maintenance, using ingredients, formulae and production methods recommended by tradition predating the nineteenth century:

Off-whites
Quiet White
Drab Colour
Light Stone
Mouse Colour
Portland Stone
Dark Stone

Blue-reds
Crimson
Damson
Liver Colour
Maroon
Plum Colour
Purple

Reds
Blossom
Brick Colour
Carnation
Cherry Colour
Claret Colour
Dregs of Wine
Flame Colour
Flesh Colour
Geranium
Indian pink
Lacquer Rd
Mulberry
Nut Brown
Old Rose

Peach Colour
Pink
Pomegranate
Poppy red
Red pink
Red terra-cotta
Rose Colour
Rose carnation
Rose Pink *
Russet
Salmon
Scarlet
Shell pink
Venetian Red
Wine Red

Red-yellows
Amber Colour
Amber brown
Cedar Colour
Bath Stone
Biscuit Colour
Cinnamon
Copper Colour
Fawn Colour
Golden brown
Leather brown
Lion tawny
Maple Colour
Oak Colour
Olive brown

Orange Colour
Snuff Colour
Straw Colour
Tan Colour
Tawny brown
Terra-cotta
Walnut tree

Yellows
Brass Colour
Brimstone
Buff
Canary Clr
Cream Colour
Daffodil Ylw
Dutch Pink *
Gold Colour
Hay Colour
Italian Yw ^
Ivory Colour
Lemon Clr
Naples Yw ^
Old Gold Clr
Primrose Clr
Wainscot Clr

Greens
Bronze Green
Fine Green
Garden Green
Grey Green

Ice Colour
Iris Green
Invisible Grn
Lime Green *
Navy Green ^
Olive green
Parrot green
Pea green
Sage green
Willow green

Green-blues
Blue sage
Eau de Nile
Myrtle
Robin's egg
Turquoise

Blues
Azure
Garter blue
Grey old blue
Lead colour
Lime Blue *
Metallic blue
Moonlight
Navy Blue ^
Sea blue
Silver Colour
Sky blue
Slate blue

Red-blues
Dove Colour
Lilac Colour
Lavender
Mauve
Violet Colour

Browns
Chocolate
Clove brown
Coffee Colour
Mahogany
Warm Drab

Greys
Ash grey
Cold grey
Cool grey
Flaxen grey
Glass grey
Grey stone
Iron grey
Pearl grey
Russian grey Steel
Warm grey

Blacks
Blue-black
Warm Black

* a specific colour only available in distemper and limewash
^ a specific colour only available in oil paint

For authentic restoration of property of the nineteenth century we can produce the following 'new colours':

Antwerp Green ^
Barth's Green ^
Berlin Green ^
Brighton Green ^
Brunswick Greens ^

Chinese Red ^
Derby Red ^
French Blue
French Green ^
Paris Green ^

Pompeian Red ^
Pompeian Yellow ^
Purple Brown ^
Reading Green ^
Royal Red, Blue & Green ^

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