Gentles of the List, matching colours? Take an accurately-colour-referenced book-illustration/photo that contains the colour you are seeking with you, and visit your nearest Builders' Merchants that has a good Department for professional Painters & Decorators. That department will reference it's paint colours to one - or more - of several internationally-recognised Professional Decorators Colour Charts, - used by all Paint Manufacturers to achieve common standards - indexed not by names but by Chart Referenced ID No's. That department should also have a digital colour scanner, computer linked to a paint-mixing machine. They can accurately scan the colour of your sample, and mix you paints to match it exactly. However, they will also be able to cross-reference your sample colour to a shade on one of those International Colour Standard Charts. >From that, it shouldn't be too difficult to cross-reference that colour you >are seeking to either fabric manfacturers' colour swatches, - or to Dye >Manufacturers colour catalogues.
When I'm painting heraldry for our medieval re-enactment hobby, that's what I do, always trying to work from a top-quality copy of a period illustration - portrait, or manuscript illumination. Working from Museum Picture Gallery items, one must try to ensure that the picture you've chosen has either been cleaned fairly recently - or that the photo you've bought from the Gallery was taken just after the last time the portrait was cleaned. Cordially, Julian Wilson, "old" Jersey, [ aka Lord Matthewe Baker, SCA Kingdom of Drachenwald] --- On Mon, 4/1/10, Kate Bunting <[email protected]> wrote: From: Kate Bunting <[email protected]> Subject: [h-cost] Colour names To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, 4 January, 2010, 10:52 Marjorie Wilser wrote : What color *IS* unburnt umber? My childhood paintbox also had "raw umber" (and raw and burnt Siena). I see raw umber is listed on the site that Fran recommended. Kate Bunting Librarian & 17th century reenactor ________________________________ The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserves the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this email was sent to you in error, please notify the sender and delete this email. Please direct any concerns to [email protected] The policy is available here: http://www.derby.ac.uk/LIS/Email-Policy _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
