Bistreț

Bistreţ is a commune in Dolj County, Romania with a population of 4,616 people in 2002. It is composed of four villages: Bistreţ, Bistreţu Nou, Brânduşa and Plosca.

Coordinates: 43°54′N 23°30′E / 43.900°N 23.500°E / 43.900; 23.500

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Bistre

Bistre (or bister) can refer to two things: a very dark shade of grayish black (the version shown on the immediate right); a shade of brown made from soot, or the name for a color resembling the brownish pigment. Bistre's appearance is generally of a dark grayish brown, with a yellowish cast.

Beechwood was burned to produce the soot, which was boiled and diluted with water. Many Old Masters used bistre as the ink for their drawings.

The first recorded use of bistre as a color name in English was in 1727; another name for the color bistre is soot brown.

Variations of bistre

Bistre brown

At right is displayed the color bistre brown, a medium brownish tone of the color bistre, also known as soot brown.

This is the tone of bistre that most closely matches the color sample in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color by Maerz and Paul.

This tone of bistre is the color of the ink that was used by the Old Masters for their drawings.

The source of this color is: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Bistre (color sample #94).