"GNW swedish blue?" Topic

Reenactors seem to use quite light blue, while those jackets in museums are darker.

I would go with the darker blue. You are correct that the uniforms in the Swedish Army Museum and most paintings show darker blue. The Drabants wore light blue in the early part of the war, as did, apparently, the Livregement till Hast.

link , the wool cloth in the image is an accurate reproduction of the colour in the cloth samples taken from the orders delivered to the Swedish army just before the GNW which show the "regulation" colour. Of course the 18th C dye process meant that no batch of cloth was 100% identical to the next but they were still able to achive a strong resemblance of the same colour. Then you have to add in the effect of weather and sun during a campaign as well as the use of what ever cloth was available when making replacement uniforms. As long as the new coats were blue in roughly the right shade the quartermasters would have been rather happy. (And lack of replacements could easily result in the men using captured enemy coats or having share a small number of coats, one famous example is the Danish Queen's regiment which at Gadebusch hade one battalion wearing red, grey and even captured Swedish blue coats while the other half of the regiment huddled in camp due to having no coats)

Thats actually lighter then I would have though. Not as light as some of the reenactors, but still lighter then those shown at the museum(did officers use darker blue?)

Both reenactors and museums tend to constrained the price of cloth as well as the shades of blue that are easily available.

There is also the fact that rather than looking at the little known cloth samples people tend to focus on preserved uniforms even though they are either for officers or royalty or pre-war "pattern" samples that were not necissarily in the same colour as that of the standard GNW uniform.
Pictures of the 3 preserved uniforms can be found here
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Photos of the original cloth samples held by the army museum are here
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Or they have even looked at the colour of the later m/1756 uniform when recreating GNW uniforms.

Thanks!