I have been reading this discussion of color coding with interest.
I was married to a man who was color blind (blue-green) for 13 years.
Here are a couple of points that have not been mentioned.
1. By and large it is men who are color blind, (women rarely are).
However women are the carriers, and sons of a woman who is color blind have
a genetic predisposition to be color blind also, CBness skips a generation.
2. By the time a person is trying to make lace, most are 'color
trained'. Or what ever they 'see' when they are handed a 'blue' ball, is
what they 'know' as blue. My ex-husband had no trouble with seeing day to
day, and could even 'see colors' on a BW TV. His grandfather who was much
more 'color blind' could see most 'colors' on BW TV.
The 3 males mentioned in Jean's post were all in the same gene pool.
So, maybe this isn't such a great hindrance to lace diagrams after all.
Lorri F
Subject: [lace] Case against colour coding
> Not my experience either. The last school I taught at put on a play where
> the stage had to be painted with a huge rainbow. Three male teachers (two
> brothers and the son of one of them) were doing the painting and asked
> that
> the names of the colours be written on the tins - they were all colour
> blind
> and had no idea what the colours of the paints were. Only in that school
> would all the painters be colour blind!!!
>
> Jean in Poole
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