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Arts & Crafts Color Palette for EQ6

Having no luck finding any kind of Arts & Crafts color palette for use with EQ6, I assembled/built my own. Searching the web for a palette was difficult enough - the only decent one I found (If anyone knows of others, please drop me a line & let me know) was the Sherwin-Williams Roycroft Arts & Crafts Palette. Fortunately, they also have a utility for viewing/playing with these colors that gives their RGB values. Thinking ahead, instead of just transposing the RGB values directly into EQ6, I first entered them into an Excel spreadsheet, including shading sample cells for each color (I just KNOW I'm going to be glad I did this later... )

The next step was creating a project notebook in EQ6, and deleting all the default colors in the palette in that notebook (starting with a blank slate, so to speak). This is a tedious process; colors seem to be the only notebook items that can't be deleted by range (Note: EQ guys) - you have to delete each of the 300+ colors individually. Annoying, but doable in a few minutes.

Thinking ahead again, I realized it's obvious that, though not specifically in the palette, black, white, and several intermediate shades of gray will be useful, so I began by adding those colors (black & white are left by default, and I added the grays by adding the "shades & tints" between the black & white color tiles. Shade & tint values for either black or white are exactly the same, so it doesn't matter which one is used.) Then I added in the S-W A&C colors (there are 34 of them) by hand from the RGB values I put into the spreadsheet. The entire process took a couple hours, but I think it'll be worth it.

Now, when I want to design a quilt using only the colors in the S-W A&C palette, I can do so without searching through a huge spectrum and trying to figure out which colors are which. I could have left the default palette alone and just added the A&C colors on the end (or even sorted them to the front of the line) but going to the end each time, or sorting with EQ is a real pain... (Note again: EQ guys)

Now I can keep that alternate A&C palette and add new colors on to it when desired. The only drawback I've found so far (and reason TO add colors as needed over time) is that all the colors in the S-W palette are pretty drab/subdued, as they're meant for wall paint - not quilts. But if you use those colors in decorating, wouldn't it be nice to have lapquilts, hangings, pillows, etc. color-coordinated with your room? ;-)

Finding fabrics that match those colors is another issue, but hey... I'm off to the races!

Oh, the possibilities... THE POSSIBILITIES...

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Dr.Smith
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Roberta

What is special about an Arts and Crafts colour palette? I've never heard of it before. Allison

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Allison

Hi Allison,

It has to do with the Arts & Crafts movement of the late 19th/early

20th centuries. See:
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Dr.Smith

Particularly the last paragraph just before the "Notes" section. Sherwin-Williams (AFAIK) is the only paint mfr. that caters to people specifically interested in building/restoring/decorating in the style, since they developed their palette of colors (largely earth-tones) intended to reflect the look/feel of the era/movement. Nothing is carved in stone. (Well, actually, a LOT is carved in stone in some of the gorgeous homes of the era... ;-) Other folks have attempted to capture the atmosphere in various custom palettes that can be found on the web (usually just a few colors though; i.e. < 6) - some are pretty good; others are... well... not.

I spoze just about every design/decorating style/school has certain colors - or types of colors - associated with it. This is just one.

Oh, the palettes... THE PALETTES...

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Dr.Smith

Remember those tessellations that Jack told us about a while ago, Roberta? I did work out how to do them all. The individual tessellating shape is most interesting, once worked out; but they do have to be made of two or three components; but then the whole design can be constructed using the made-up units. I haven't done anything with them yet, which is why I haven't raised them again; but this thread reminded me, of course! . In message , Roberta writes

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Patti

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Roberta

Hi Patti,

Any chance of elucidating? Maybe a link or something so I could see what you're talking about? We're interested in tesselations (as well as fractals, Escher) so a lot of my designs lean in that direction. TIA.

Doc Smith

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Dr.Smith

Well ... I was just wondering how I can fill that half-hour a week!! I had thought I might give myself a facial >g< but I see that I must do something for the greater good (though getting my face improved might be to the benefit of many >g

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Patti

Oops! Well, of course I have completely forgotten Jack's link. I might be able to find it in the archives; but I won't have time until after the weekend - it is our group's biennial show and preparation is gathering pace.

I could give you a link to the pictures of the fractals quilts from my book, if you would like? That should be quicker - I could probably get that up tomorrow? There is one tessellation there, too. . In message , snipped-for-privacy@rochester.rr.com writes

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Patti

Sure, post away, and thanks again.

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Dr.Smith

Pat, if/when you do publish a new book, I'd like to reserve my copy as of *now*, please. I've enjoyed your first one so much that I'm champing at the bit to see another!

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Sandy

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Allison

Ah Sandy. How very sweet of you. Thank you. . In message , Sandy writes

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Patti

You're welcome, Pat -- but there's nothing "sweet" about it. I just love where your imagination takes you!

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Sandy

I actually found Jack's links first !

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I hope I have transcribed these correctly. I couldn't 'computer copy' from where I had them stored!!

It will have to be my own that I'll have to leave until next week now. I know where they are! but the are filed individually, so I'll have to 'do' something with them - and that always requires a manual and time, for me >g< .

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Patti

Hello Pat,

The second link doesn't work (from where I'm sitting); perhaps it was removed? If it's similar to the first link though, it's very much like many of the designs I do. The (well, one) interesting thing I find is where you choose to begin the tessellation (or perhaps where you choose to center it). I've got one pair of designs involving "impossible" intertwined square frames (stolen... er... liberally borrowed...) from Escher. One puts a square in the center of the quilt block with 4 intertwined corners of others coming in from the corners; the other has the intersections at the center with half-squares coming in from the four sides. Yet another pair does the same thing with the either the quilt block or the design oriented on-point. They're all elaborations on this pattern/link I suggested in the QOV thread (posted 4/19) except that mine have a 3-D appearance instead of just the 2.

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I make use of wood grain fabrics to simulate/accentuate the thirddimension.

Anyway, back to where I began this ramble... changing where you begin the tessellation CAN (but not always) give a dramatically different effect/feel to the final quilt.

Doc

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Dr.Smith

Ah, found it! There was a transcription error - a superfluous "i" The correct second link is:

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Thanks again!

Doc Smith

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Dr.Smith

Sorry Doc. Glad you found it. . In message , snipped-for-privacy@rochester.rr.com writes

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Patti

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