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 Correggio 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 instructions 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.

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 sodden 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.