The Importance of Textile Color Standards
Photo source: Little-sister
I’ve just read an interesting article written by designer Michelle Engel Bencsko about Tools of the Trade: Textile Color Standards. The designer writing the entry, discovers the beauty and ease of industry standards. Rather than verbally attempting to describe fuchsia or whatever, she draws the shade and hue from a reference standard each party has on their respective end. Here’s a quote:
Buying color standards is an investment, but in the scheme of things, it’s not the biggest investment. Now that I have my full range of commonly-used core colors, I feel quite professional-like. I have cut my 4x6 standards in half and put a little header card on them for easy reference to hang on the back of my office door.
I did the same with the other half and those will be sent off to the mill. Now when I develop new collections, I can simply refer to colors by name and know that they have the standards waiting at the mill. No more taking the time to scrape up, prepare and mail pieces of fabric swatches… just an email with .pdfs of my artwork and some specifications and we’re off and running. And by the way, when you send something to India, it costs quite a bit to ship via UPS, so I’ll make my money back on these standards within a few collections.
For those who may be interested, here is the link to the entire post
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