Beige, or drab as it used to be called, was a popular color in the first half of the nineteenth century and especially fashionable in the 1830s and 1840s.  Colors could vary greatly depending on the proportions of reds, yellows, greens and blues added. In general, more than two colors of dyes were mixed and logwood was a common ingredient.(1)  Other dye sources could include gall nuts and sumac.

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(1) Alan Dronsfield and John Edmonds, Historic Dyes Series (Little Chalfont, UK: J. Edmonds, 2001), no. 6, The Transition from Natural to Synthetic Dyes, 1856-1920, 20.