faints-colors

Updated: May 11, 2025

Day by day, hour by hour, the woman had drawn the threads through the warp, inventing the designs, forming beautiful figures with tints that harmonized. Here were the faints-colors of the ever-varying opal; the bright blue of the turquoise, the rose hues of the blossoms on the tea-rose, the aqua-marine tints of the Mediterranean Sea.

Felicia Buttz Clark - Virgilia : or, out of the Lion's Mouth