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 – [...]
Some people have asked about what’s behind morecloth.com, what I’m trying to do here and how the software works.
Maybe I should start by saying what I’m not trying to do. I’m not trying to:
(1) Come up with come up anything definitive – any model way of sorting or presenting fabric. There’s plenty of room for [...]
Tomorrow the site showing Etsy fabrics by color will be two months old. And in the course of those two months it will have been seen by more than 19,500 people. If I’d had any idea what I was getting into back in May when I started this project… I’m coming to see the flow [...]