I found the New Munsell Student Color Set and was surprised to discover that the author, Jim Long, resided right here in Richmond, VA at that time. I plan my fabric palettes using the Munsell system. I started to understand within my own work the difference between systems for color mixing and systems for perceiving color. That made no sense to me.Īt the same time I started dyeing fabric and blending my own colors. The author of the quilt books and tools in using this system says that the Process wheel is the right wheel for textile artists because it is the wheel used by manufacturers that print fabrics. Unfortunately in the quilt industry we are primarily being taught to use a Subtractive system based on the Ives Process Wheel. I became a little obsessed with understanding all of the different color systems and eventually started to understand the Subtractive, Additive and Partitive (Munsell) systems and how each is used. I followed that class a few years later with a 2-day value class with Hollis Chatelaine and have since read over 12 books on the subject. That one class over 15 years ago started me on a great journey to study color. I walked out of that class wide-eyed and energized and completely overwhelmed about all the other things that I knew I needed to know. Was I ever surprised! When I was telling a friend about the class my comment was “I need at least 5 more all-day classes to even get started understanding color.” It was like a first taste of chocolate. It was an all-day class and I could not figure out how the instructor was going to be able to fill an entire day talking about color. I eventually had an opportunity to take a a class called Color Theory for Quilters.
#Color wheel for clothes how to#
I had no idea how to pick colors for my quilts and mostly relied on the fabric manufacturers to pick fabrics. When I switched to quilting, color became a huge challenge. I mostly made suits and office wear so black and blue made up the majority of my palette. Using Color Theory in Fiber Artįor years I made my own clothes and in the mid 1990’s I discovered quilting. I was never encouraged to take art classes because I was a crafter, not an artist so I missed out on any formal training in how to see and use color.
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From my earliest memories the only gifts I ever wanted were fabrics and craft supplies.