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Champagne, A comparatively new colour name. It was found necessary to introduce this slightly more orange colour, compared to biscuit, to the BCS Dictionary to meet the requirements of the interior decoration industries. The descriptive name was adopted following many demands for standardisation. Taken from the wine and general representation of samples submitted by textile and other colour using industries.

A descriptive name of one of the blues specially produced for China by British dyers at the beginning of the 20th Century.

A colour much used in French and English tapestries of very early date. This colour was matched to 17th Century Mortlake tapestries at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.