jillaine

Well, THIS is a fascinating little article, especially for us color-lovers:

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/200...he-color-wheel

BeeNana

Who would think the history would go back so far.
Thanks

Lobster

Very interesting. Pity it doesn't use an accurate colour wheel, thought. I'd have liked to have seen a discussion of the red/yellow/blue tradition vs. the Ives colour wheel, which uses magenta/yellow/turquoise as the primaries and is the colour wheel used in printing and fabric.

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craftybear

thanks that is cool, always fun to learn more about color

patchsamkim

Very interesting...the color wheel is a great tool...but that is what it is...a tool...I rarely use one when deciding colors for a quilt. I just go with what is pleasing to me. Sometimes after I pick out the colors if I were to get a color wheel out, I can find out what combination of colors I picked out in relationship to the wheel. I think some people do have a good sense of color, and others do really struggle with putting colors together, so a color wheel can help know what color combinations work and why they do.