In the buff", today meaning naked, originally applied to English soldiers wearing the buff leather tunic that was their uniform until the 17th century. Not only is the card sourced from sustainable forests but the papermill where the card is made also commit to water management and waste reduction.

Such coats were intended to protect the wearer, and the strongest and finest leathers tend to be buff, so the term "buff coats" came to refer to all such coats, even if the colour varied. Both General Washington and Alexander Hamilton, as chief of staff, had a role in the design of the uniforms.Adjutant Cotter, not wanting to be shown up in front of his former regiment, the 21st Royal (North British) Fusiliers, spurred his men on with the words: "Steady, the Buffs! The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Buff ( Latin: bubalinus) [2] [3] is a light brownish yellow, ochreous colour, typical of buff leather. The surface has a gentle texture, soft and good-tempered nature, and is a strong and stable enough sheet to ensure excellent printing. Our su gar paper is slightly rough with unfinished surface and it's perfect for drawing, sketching or colouring with pastels and crayons.

This paper at 100 gsm (that is about 140 micron) is suitable for children's art, craft and school projects. In December 2004, the article was rewritten under its present title to reflect new evidence and new debate on the subject since the writing of the original article. The Bibby Line and the Fyffes Line are two of several firms to use the same "buff with a black top" scheme as White Star, but with a similar lack of certainty as to the exact shade used and how this differed from the famous White Star scheme.popularised by Rudyard Kipling in his 1888 work Soldiers Three, has its origins during 2nd Battalion's garrison duties in Malta. a b "AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion", Metropolitan Museum of Art (2006), exhibition brochure, p. Any shine can be easily toned down with a light coat of matt acrylic lacquer applied using a spray can. You will receive the credit within a certain amount of days, depending on your card issuer's policies. The Lakes Craft collection is a smooth, double-sided, uncoated card available in a range of pastel and intense colours.

The Orient Line and Norddeutscher Lloyd used an entirely buff funnel without the black top, while Canadian Pacific and the Swedish American Line employed a buff funnel with a representation of the company's house flag on them. Based in Sussex we provide frequent, fast deliveries in the local area as well as throughout the UK. Always achieving good printing results, this buff, light brown Manilla paper is suitable for offset, screen, flexo printing, litho, dry toner and inkjet printers - also easy to customise using several processes (foil and blind embossing, laminating, spot varnishing, creasing, folding, die-cutting and laser-cutting, perforating and binding).Manilla Buff is a rigid, strong and durable paper with a high colour consistency and a superb uniform and clean surface, great for different applications. If we printed them onto thick card, getting realistic, crisp corners on buildings would be virtually impossible.

The flags of Delaware and New Jersey, and the former flags of New York and Maine, officially feature buff.Buff is a mixture of yellow ochre and white: [6] two parts of white lead and one part of yellow ochre produces a good buff, or white lead may be tinted with French ochre alone. If your package does not arrive Royal mail requires us to wait for 14 working days before we are able to raise a claim. S. Army Institute of Heraldry specifies a "buff" tincture for certain coats of arms, often treating it as a metal for purposes of the rule of tincture. A lightly weathered modern buff brick paper for scratchbuilding OO gauge / 1:76 scale model buildings. The colours of George Washington University and Hamilton College are buff and blue, modelled on the military uniform of General George Washington and the Continental Army.