Thursday, September 24, 2009
Pantone and the Stitcher
Textile folks know about the Pantone report which tries to predict color trends for designers of all sorts of products. Here's the Pantone report for this fall in a PDF format.
http://www.pantone.com/downloads/articles/pdfs/PANTONE_FCR_FALL09.pdf
After you droll over the sketches of designer gowns using these colors, you might want to read about this beader's use of the Pantone colors to generate color palettes for her beading.
http://beadlust.blogspot.com/2009/09/ten-great-colors-for-fall.html
Anyone who needs to choose colors for a design (whether it is a counted thread chart or an original design or an outlined canvas) might find the color articles from Pantone a good source of inspiration.
The fall colors seem luscious to me. Do you like them?
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4 comments:
The colors are luscious, as are the clothes...now if my body looked anything like those! LOL
Excellent color resource. The colors had me until the Olive Green. I never saw an olive green that color, ever. They was great until the pink (which was just a tad too brownish, although I love muted colors) and then the colors sort of got worse...after the pink.
Still, I am carping, a good resource. I am enjoying the rabbit's progress. Some very fine stitching going on here (I will not slink off to my bad stitcher hidey hole)
I liked most of the colors, but then I know how they display on all our monitors is very different. So who is to say that your view of the pink was too brown and mine was just right?
Anyway, we all have bad stitching days. Just keep working that needle. Every stitching day is different.
Pat, no one's body looks like those!
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