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Pink is a young colour, made popular during the 18th century when the Renaissance artists fell in love with it, creating paintings full of billowing dresses swishing through the air on rose garlanded swings, and courtiers chasing their amours through enchanted forests. It represents fun, sweetness and innocence, and is the perfect antidote when you’re feeling flat. Sweet, playful, charming and feminine, pink is the colour of romance, of laughter, glee and candyfloss. Our favourite yarns for redįuschia, ballet pink, rouge, flamingo, candyfloss, orchid, sugar pink, fondant, blush pink, watermelon, cerise, cherry blossom, carnation, aramanth, old rose Pink It is the colour of life-force, and when we wear it, we are empowered - we feel bold and full of life. As far back as 2,000 BC it was said to have spiritual power, and used to paint doorways to repel demons. In China, red is the symbolic colour of happiness and luck, prosperity and protection.
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It is the colour of love, passion and excitement, from red roses on Valentine’s Day to daring driving in that most famous of bright red cars, the Ferrari.ĭelicious, ripe strawberries and deep crimson red wine are rich with hedonism, and the very presence of red is said to heighten blood pressure, and increase our respiration rates. Whatever your red - from deep burgundy to sweet chilli, wear it with passion!"Įgyptian mummies were wrapped in linen dyed with hematite, Inca deities were adorned in red, Roman generals, kings and queens, Catholic cardinals and Father Christmas - red is as potent today as it was thousands of years ago.
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Scientists believe Neanderthals were the first to make red ochre from hematite, and later, artists from the Upper Paleolithic period adorned cave walls with bison and hand prints using the brightest, boldest colour they could find: red. Scarlet, vermillion, cochineal, crimson, blood, brick, chilli, lipstick, ruby, tomato, heart, strawberry, garnet, carnelian, cherry, ketchup, oxbloodįull of power and passion, red has been with us since the dawn of human history, making statements right back to its first uses as body paint and cave drawings 250,000 years ago. New selection may affect price, shipping options and product availability