On Nov 9, 2005, at 18:49, Lynn Carpenter wrote:
I was only recently reminded of the effect of black on colors [...]
the person who reminded me of this had done some weaving with the same
colors on a ground of white, a grey ground, and a black ground. It
was very instructive to
see how much more the black brought the colors out
Black - all the various shades of it - is an excellent background to
bring other colours out, as you noticed. But. It also tends to
"concentrate", especially when used on small projects (such as lace,
though I discovered it first when doing miniature needlepoint), so the
colours surrounded by it need to be fairly strong (primary) themselves
- which yours were - to show off well.
If you're using muted (non-primary) colours, in a small scale, I'd
strongly recommend charcoal brown (almost black, but not quite) to make
the contrast less aggressive.
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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