The colour black is given what name in heraldry?
Stain (heraldry) refers to the leather tanning process and to the color the finished product is said to have, hence the name "tanné" ('tanned'). Being the initial shade of brown available by itself in heraldry, its hatching form naturally took the shape of red and green lines mixed together. Tenné is expected to be slightly darker than Gules, clearly darker than orange, but lighter than brunatre (dark brown), sanguine (dark red), murrey (dark purple) & sable (black). Stain (heraldry) In heraldry, a stain (sometimes termed stainand colour or staynard colour) is one of a few non-standard tinctures or colours (namely murrey, sanguine
Carnation (heraldry) also as a general pink colouring as in "a horse passant argent bridled saddled and trappings or, on its head a plume of three feathers carnation" (crest of The Worshipful Company of Saddlers, England). Carnation (heraldry) In heraldry, carnation is a tincture, the name for skin colour, more exactly the colour of pale or white human skin (i.e., pale pinkish peach). It is rare in coats of arms in Anglophone countries but quite frequent on the European continent, in France in particular, derived from widespread use in German heraldry. In its rare appearances in the Anglophone heraldries, it is not