Pressed Lace Verdigris

Latin pressāre, to press — past-participle of press. As a color modifier, pressed implies a clear-and-smoothed-and-flattened quality, the crisp color of Mid-Century-Modern freshly-pressed-shirt-and-trouser ironed-textile finish. Sits at the crisp-and-finished end of the grid, parallel to ironed and starched in usage.

Old French laz, cord / lace. As a color modifier, lace implies a hand-tatted-and-decorative-net quality, the visual register of Edwardian-and-Belgian-Bruges-lace hand-tatted-and-bobbin-lace bridal-and-formal-wear delicate-network-pattern textile surfaces under Bruges-and-Edwardian hand-tatted-lace filtered light. Sits at the modifier-and-texture end of the grid, parallel to silk and fluff in usage.

The basic copper carbonate that forms on weathered copper and bronze — the pigment scraped from oxidized metal and used in Renaissance painting before being supplanted by more stable greens. The color refers to a thick verdigris on aged copper roofing or the Statue of Liberty's surface: a soft, slightly muted blue-green with the powdery finish of mineral oxide. Cooler than patina, warmer than seafoam, with the archaeological weight of a mineral made by time.