Saffron (color)

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Saffron (color)

Saffron is a shade of golden

Gold (color)

Gold, also called golden, is an orange -yellow color which is a representation of the color of the chemical element gold. Metallic gold, such as in paint, is often called goldtone or gold-tone....
yellow

Yellow

Yellow is the color evoked by light that stimulates both the L and M cone cells of the retina about equally, but does not significantly stimulate the S cone cells; that is, light with much red and green but not very much blue....
resembling color of the tip of the saffron crocus thread, from which the spice saffron

Saffron

Saffron is a spice derived from the dried gynoecium of the flower of the saffron crocus , a species of crocus in the family Iridaceae. The flower has three Carpels, which are the anatomical terms of location ends of the plant's carpels....
is derived.
Deep Saffron

Deep saffron (????? ?? ????) is the color of the upper band of the Indian National Flag (Bharatiya Rashtriya Dhwaj).

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Saffron is a shade of golden

Gold (color)

Yellow

Saffron

Shades of Saffron

Saffron

The color saffron is displayed at right.

Deep Saffron

Deep saffron (????? ?? ????) is the color of the upper band of the Indian National Flag (Bharatiya Rashtriya Dhwaj). It represents sacrifice and salvation.

Saffron in human culture

Art
Art

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature....

The Gates
The Gates

The Gates is a site-specific art work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 miles of pathways in Central Park in New York City....
is a site-specific
Site-specific art

Site-specific art is work of art created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork....
art installation
Installation art

Installation art is the use of sculptural materials and other interesting material to transform a space or, argueably, an area. Installation art is not necessarily confined to gallery spaces and can be any material intervention in everyday public or private spaces....
by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Christo and Jeanne-Claude are a married couple who create environmental works of art. Their works include the wrapping of the Reichstag in Berlin and the Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris, the 24-mile-long artwork called...
. The artists installed 7,503 metal "gates" along 23 miles (37 km) of pathways in Central Park
Central Park

Central Park is a large public, urban park in New York City, with about twenty-five million visitors annually. Most of the areas immediately adjacent to the park are known for impressive buildings and valuable real estate....
in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
. From each gate hung a flag-shaped piece of deep saffron-colored
Saffron (color)

Saffron is a shade of Gold yellow resembling color of the tip of the saffron crocus thread, from which the spice saffron is derived....
nylon
Nylon

Nylon is a generic designation for a family of synthetic polymers known generically as polyamides and first produced on February 28, 1935 by Wallace Carothers at DuPont....
fabric. The exhibit ran from February 12, 2005 through February 27, 2005.

Ethnography
Ethnography

Ethnography is a genre of writing that uses fieldwork to provide a descriptive study of human societies. Ethnography presents the results of a holism research method founded on the idea that a system's properties cannot necessarily be accurately understood independently of each other....

Saffron-colored cloth is thought by some to have a history of use among Celtic
Celt

Celts , is a modern term used to describe any of the European peoples who spoke, or speak, a Celtic languages. The term is also used in a wider sense to describe the Modern Celts of those peoples, notably those who participate in a Celtic culture....
peoples. A "saffron" kilt
Kilt

The kilt is a knee-length garment with pleats at the rear, originating in the traditional dress of men and boys in the Scottish Highlands of the 16th century....
is worn by the pipers of certain Irish regiment
Irish regiment

An Irish regiment is a regiment , excluding those actually in the Irish Defence Forces, that at some time in its history has or had intentional recruitment consisting primarily of members either from Ireland or of Irish descent....
s in the British Army
British Army

The British Army is the Army branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdoms of Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707....
and in the defence forces of the Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland

Ireland is an Island country in north-western Europe. The modern Sovereignty state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned by the British on 3 May 1921....
. This garment is also worn by some Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
and Irish-American men as an item of national costume. Its color varies from a true saffron orange to a range of dull mustard and yellowish-brown hues. The Antrim GAA
Antrim GAA

The Antrim County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Antrim GAA is one of the 32 GAA county of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Antrim....
teams are nicknamed "The Saffrons" because of the saffron-colored kilt which they play in. The surname
Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases a surname is a family name; the family-name meaning first appeared in 1375....
"Cronin
Cronin

Cronin is an Irish people surname which originated in County Cork and is derived from the Old Irish word cr?n, meaning Saffron . It may refer to:...
," which originated in County Cork
County Cork

County Cork is the most southerly and the largest of the modern counties of Republic of Ireland. Cork is nicknamed "The Rebel County", as a result of the support of the townsmen of Cork in 1491 for Perkin Warbeck, a pretender to the throne of England during the Wars of the Roses....
, is derived from the Old Irish word crón, meaning saffron-colored.

Literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....

The color saffron is associated with the goddess of dawn
Dawn

Dawn is the twilight before sunrise. It is recognized by the presence of weak sunlight, while the sun itself is still below the horizon. Dawn should not be confused with sunrise, which is the moment when the leading edge of the sun itself appears above the horizon....
(Eos
Eos

Eos is, in Greek mythology, the Titan goddess of the dawn, who rose from her home at the edge of Oceanus, the Ocean that surrounds the world, to herald her brother Helios, the sun....
in Greek mythology and Aurora
Aurora (mythology)

Aurora is the Latin word for dawn, the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology and Latin poetry. Aurora is comparable to the Greek mythology goddess Eos, though Aurora did not bring with her any resonance of a greater archaic goddess....
in Roman mythology) in classical
Classics

Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean World; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity ....
literature:

Homer

Homer is traditionally held to be the author of the ancient Greek language epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as of the Homeric Hymns....
's Iliad
ILiad

The iLiad is an electronic handheld device, or e-book device, which can be used for document reading and editing. Like the Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle, the iLiad makes use of an electronic paper display....
:

Now when Dawn in robe of saffron was hastening from the streams of Okeanos, to bring light to mortals and immortals, Thetis
Thetis

Silver-footed Thetis , disposer or "placer" , is encountered in Greek mythology mostly as a sea nymph, one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of the ancient one of the seas with shape-shifting abilities who survives in the historical vestiges of most later Greek myths as Proteus ....
reached the ships with the armor that the god had given her. (19.1)

Virgil

Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro was a classical Roman poet, best known for three major works?the Bucolics , the Georgics and the Aeneid?although several Appendix Vergiliana are also attributed to him....
's Aeneid
Aeneid

The Aeneid is a Latin Epic poetry written by Virgil in the late 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Troy who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Rome....
:

:Aurora now had left her saffron bed,

And beams of early light the heav'ns o'erspread,

When, from a tow'r, the queen, with wakeful eyes,

Saw day point upward from the rosy

Rose (color)

Rose is the color halfway between red and magenta on the HSV color space, on which it is at hue angle of 330 degrees.Rose has 67% red and 33% blue ....
skies.

Music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....

The of Donovan
Donovan

Donovan , is a Scotland singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk music scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, Popular music, psychedelic rock, and world music....
's 1966 song, Mellow Yellow
Mellow Yellow

"Mellow Yellow" is a song and single release by Donovan. It reached #2 on the Billboard charts in the U.S. in 1966.The song was rumored to be about smoking dried banana skins, which was Bananadine in the 1960s, but this rumor has since been debunked....
repeat the line, "I'm just mad about Saffron."

Politics
Politics

Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporation, academia, and religion institutions....

Because Theravada Buddhist monks were at the forefront of the 2007 Burmese anti-government protests
2007 Burmese anti-government protests

The 2007 Burmese anti-government protests were a series of anti-government protests that started in Burma on August 15, 2007. The immediate cause of the protests was mainly the unannounced decision of the ruling military junta, the State Peace and Development Council, to remove fuel subsidies which caused the price of diesel and gasoline...
, the uprising has been referred to as the Saffron Revolution by some in the international mediahttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2516773.ece
In India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
, the terms Saffronization
Saffronization

Saffronization or saffronisation is a political neologism , used to refer to the policy of right-wing Hindu nationalism which seeks to make the politics of India into a "Hindu nation" with its Muslim and Christian religious minorities reduced to a status of second-class citizens, and its Sikh, Buddhist and Jain minorities incorporated...
and Saffron Brigade are used to refer to the Hindu nationalists
Hindu nationalism

Hindu nationalism is a nationalism ideology that sees the modern state of the India as a Hindu polity , and seeks to preserve the Hindu heritage....
.

Religion
Religion

A religion is an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of myth, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendence quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power or truth....

In Sanatan Dharma (Hinduism
Hinduism

'Hinduism' is the predominant religion of the Indian subcontinent. Hinduism is often referred to as , a Sanskrit phrase meaning "the eternal dharma", by its practitioners....
), the color deep saffron is associated with sacrifice and salvation. Saffron or "Bhagwa" is often worn by "Sanyasis" who have left their home in search of the ultimate.
Buddhist monks in the Theravada tradition typically wear saffron robes (although occasionally maroon
Maroon (color)

Maroon is a dark brownish-red color....
--the color normally worn by Vajrayana Buddhist monks--is worn). (The shade of saffron typically worn by Theravada Buddhist monks is the lighter shade of saffron shown above.)
Sikh
Sikh

Sikh is the title and name given to an adherent of Sikhism. The term has its origin in the Sanskrit ' "disciple, learner" or ' "instruction"....
s use saffron as the background color of the Nishan Sahib
Nishan Sahib

The Nishan Sahib is a Sikh holy flag made of cotton or silk cloth and is generally triangular in shape. The background colour of the Nishan Sahib during the early phase of Sikh history was white....
, the flag of the Sikh religion, upon which is displayed the khanda in blue
Blue

Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440?490 Nanometre....
.

Vexillology
Vexillology

Vexillology is the scholarly study of flags. The word is a synthesis of the Latin word vexillum and the suffix -logy, meaning "study of"....

The color at the top of the Indian National Flag is a color officially called deep saffron
Saffron (color)

Saffron is a shade of Gold yellow resembling color of the tip of the saffron crocus thread, from which the spice saffron is derived....
that is an orangeish shade of saffron. The color deep saffron represents the Hindus of India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
, the color India green
Variations of green

This article is about notable tints and shades of the color green. These various colors are shown below....
represents the Muslim
Muslim

:A Muslim , , is an adherent of the religion of Islam. The feminine form is Muslimah . Literally, the word means "one who submits "....
s of India, and the white
White

White is a color, the Color vision#Physiology of color perception which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in near equal amount and with high brightness compared to the surroundings....
represents other religions. According to another theory Deep Saffron represents sacrifice and renunciation, Green represents prosperity, fertility, abundance and chivalry and White represents peace. The Chakra in the middle of the flag represent continuous progress and evolution.

Saffron (color)

Shades of Saffron

Saffron

Deep Saffron

Saffron in human culture

See also