See Dianthus, Botany Index.

Carnation Colour, among painters, is understood of all the parts of a picture, in general, which represent flesh, or which are naked and without drapery. Titian and Corregio in Italy, and Rubens and Van Dyke in Flanders, excelled in carnations.—In colouring for flesh, there is so great a variety, that it is hard to lay down any general rules for instruction therein; neither are there any regarded by those who have acquired a skill this way; the various colouring for carnations may be easily produced, by taking more or less red, blue, yellow, or bistre, whether for the first colouring, or for the finishing; the colour for women should be bluish, for children a little red, both fresh and gay; and for men it should incline to yellow, especially if they are old.

Carnation, among dyers. To dye a carnation, or red rose colour, it is directed to take liquor of wheat bran a sufficient quantity, alum three pounds, tartar two ounces; boil them, and enter 20 yards of broad cloth; after it has boiled three hours, cool and wash it: take fresh clear bran liquor a sufficient quantity, madder five pounds; boil and foddern according to art.—The Bow dyers know that the solution of tin, being put in a kettle to the alum and tartar, in another process, makes the cloth, &c., attract the colour into it, so that none of the cochineal is left, but the whole is absorbed by the cloth.