[Above: a pair of colorful necklaces that my Aunt Claire found in a thrift store.]
For the past two months I’ve been away from this blog, away from my home, and only intermittently able to access the Internet, I was called away, abruptly, to care for my Aunt Claire during the last weeks of her life.
While [...]
Each time I update fabric listings on this site, I find myself lingering over particular images and thinking about the design strategies behind them.
Fading and blending with restricted color
The three fabrics above, all quilting-weight cotton from the Northcott “Visual Arts” series, appear to be printed in the normal commercial way (i.e. using rotary screens, a [...]
At some point back in 2000-2001 I made the decision, for reasons both practical and philosophical, to stop using Microsoft’s Windows, along with a lot of other proprietary software. Everything I do these days – the morecloth site, my personal computing, the soon-to-be-launched site I’m building for online textile design – everything runs on [...]
There’s no substitute for the human eye and brain when it comes to choosing colors and color combinations to please … the human eye and brain. We pick up and integrate, often effortlessly and unconsciously, countless cues about material, texture, hue, lighting, style, fashion, and cultural context. Still, there’s no shortage of mathematical rules – [...]
I’ve just uploaded a selection of fabrics from gloriouscolor.com: 552 of them that I sorted, more or less, into color groups; to see these groupings click on the image below. The Glorious Color fabric shop stocks, among other things, a huge collection of prints by Kaffe Fassett, Philip Jacobs, and Brandon Mably, and the selection [...]
Yesterday I updated morecloth.com, adding more fabrics (over 1,400 there now) and a couple of new ways of displaying some of them. In addition to 132 pages of fabrics in single-color ranges, there are now a few new experimental pages showing side-by-side columns of fabrics in multiple color ranges. Click on the “like-color ranges” and [...]
Last night I uploaded the fourth installment of my ongoing struggle to classify Etsy fabrics by color. (Click here to see what I came up this time.) The struggle is hopeless, of course, though enjoyable. This time I looked (or at least my software looked) at 4,506 fabric images – just a sampling of what’s [...]
Since starting http://morecloth.com 12 days ago, I’ve had an amazing response: over 2200 different visitors from over 60 countries. Thanks to all of you for your interest and patience as I try to make this sort-by-color effort into something useful and sustainable. I’m learning as I go….
If you have an Etsy fabric shop, and your [...]