Question-Kendel Green-Sir W.Scott

[chrisupyonder]

I remenber Kendal Green cloth from my many visits to the town of Kendal years ago.

Found this on t'net...

Kendal Green
Green cloth for foresters; so called from Kendal, Westmoreland, famous at one time for this manufacture. Kendal green was the livery of Robin Hood and his followers. In Rymer's Faedera (ii. 83) is a letter of protection, dated 1331, and granted by Edward III. to John Kempe of Flanders, who established cloth-weaving in the borough.

Also...

“How couldst thou know these men in Kendal green, when it was so dark thou couldst not see thy hand?” —Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., ii. 4.

And...

A shade of green produced by a dye extracted from the woadwaxen plant.

See: http://www.prcupcc.org/herbs/herbsw/woadwaxen.htm

Note: I always thought Robin Hood was in Lincoln Green.

Chris.