[Regia-NA] Swatch Book

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Photocopies of weaves online sounds like an excellent resource!  Thanks,
Steve and Hazel!

--charlotte "wishing I'd thought of this" mayhew



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Etheridge" <seibhyrt at hotmail.com>
To: <list-regia-na at lig.net>
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 6:15 AM
Subject: RE: [Regia-NA] Swatch Book


> >From: Folo Watkins
> >It occurred to me that a swatch book of acceptable fabrics--as well as
> >unacceptable fabrics to be avoided--would be an excellent resource for
new
> >members. Being rather limited in textile knowledge, I feel inadequate to
> >creating such a thing. Does anyone have them or would be able to assemble
> >such a swatch book? For that matter, my wife gave away her old dye wheel,
> >with yarns dyed to various colors from natural dyes. Is such a thing
> >available anywhere?
>
> Hi, Folki
>
> Hazel Uzzel has been sending me photocopies of authentic weaves for the
last
> year or so.  The advantage of photocopies is that
> 1) They can be expanded to see the weave more clearly
> 2) it's a hell of a lot easier to produce and distribute to as many people
> as possible.
>
> this (combined with the DMC colour chart (sans samples) will form an
> appendix to the authenticy regulations.  However, in the meantime it
should
> be possible to put the weaves up on the website near to the colour chart.
> By combining the two, it should be possible to get the correct weave in
the
> correct colour.  I'm a bit snowed under at the moment - remind me in a few
> weeks time!
>
> Steve
>
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