Colour Analysis Part II: Your Colours | INTO MIND The second part of our little colour analysis series is all about exploring the 12 different colour palettes of the seasonal colour typology. Don’t worry if you are not sure which one of the 12 types your own colouring fits into. The goal of this whole exercise is not to exclusively wear colours from your recommended palette from now on. Your coloring is only one of many factors that should go into creating a colour palette for your wardrobe, another piece of the puzzle. I will talk more about how to integrate your colours into your style concept (and whether to do it at all) in the next post – for now, try to see your palette as a starting point from which you can slowly develop your own personal palette, based on your colouring AND your style concept. Exploring your colour palette: Have a look at the colours that are specifically recommended for your type and ask yourself: does this colour really suit me, does it fit my style concept, do I want to incorporate it into my wardrobe?
How to Pair Colours: A Short Intro to Colour Theory | INTO MIND Every great outfit needs a great colour palette, which is why brushing up on your colour pairing skills should be at the top of your to-do list if you think you could use a little help in the colour department. The good news is that a big part of what makes one colour pairing better than another is down to simple technique and a few basic rules of aesthetics, i.e. things you can learn. This is where colour theory comes in. 1. In this post I’ll give you a quick intro to both of these and also show you lots of examples for how to use three of the most important colour formulas/rules to build outfits (monochromatic, complementary and analogous). Also note that this post is just about pairing colours for single outfits. First things first: To create great colour pairings you need to be able to assess the basic characteristics of each individual shade. Hue Saturation The saturation of a colour is how intense it is, compared to a black – white spectrum (the complete absence of a hue).
Colours - The Silk Bazaar - hand dyed silk products for belly dancers, kids, women and all lovers of natural silk Currently we have over 40 colours in this range for you to choose from. What makes our plain colours unique is our dying process, items are dyed with a number of slight tonal variations which give our products depth of colour unseen in convetional dying. Colour Blends Blends are a combination of two or more cololurs to give a textured appearance either medium or large effect Pattern A number of techniques come under this banner, the beautiful lineal or symmetrical gradation of colours fading into the next as well as tie dying with circles and spirals. Custom Orders Custom orders can be arranged. The Dyes Our dyes are Procion MX Dyes. A note about our naturally dyed products: We only use plant dyes that are very non-toxic, such as allium – onion dyes.
Culture - Tyrian Purple: The disgusting origins of the colour purple Purple is a paradox, a contradiction of a colour. Associated since antiquity with regality, luxuriance, and the loftiness of intellectual and spiritual ideals, purple was, for many millennia, chiefly distilled from a dehydrated mucous gland of molluscs that lies just behind the rectum: the bottom of the bottom-feeders. That insalubrious process, undertaken since at least the 16th Century BC (and perhaps first in Phoenicia, a name that means, literally, ‘purple land’), was notoriously malodorous and required an impervious sniffer and a strong stomach. More like this: - The toxic colour that comes from volcanoes - The racist message hidden in a masterpiece - The colour that means both life and death It took tens of thousands of desiccated hypobranchial glands, wrenched from the calcified coils of spiny murex sea snails before being dried and boiled, to colour even a single small swatch of fabric, whose fibres, long after staining, retained the stench of the invertebrate’s marine excretions.