• Dots and variations, closely packed

    It’s impossible, at least for me, to look at fabric designs involving dots without undergoing a kind of involuntary Rorschach test. Without, that is, on some subliminal level, seeing the dots on fabric as living creatures. They line up in rows and columns, drift apart, or contend for space. They jostle against each other, step [...]

  • Update and new feature at morecloth

    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 [...]

  • Raucous, drab, and everything in between: a few trillion ways to classify fabric

    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 [...]