Measuring yarn samples
Measuring yarn samples
- Subject: Measuring yarn samples
- From: Eric Bullock <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:27:12 -0400
- Thread-topic: Measuring yarn samples
I have a unique project that I am working on. Our client designs and
produces custom hand-knotted rugs for people all over the world. Some of
them are several thousand square feet in size! Pretty cool stuff.
To help clients pick the right colors they have a sample kit containing 408
"swatches" of actual yarn. They are stuffed into little tubes about the
diameter of a nickel, so basically when you open the sample case, you are
looking at the yarn ends, not the side of the yarn. The goal with this
project is to come up with a set of Lab values for each swatch that can then
be used to produce cad drawings of the designs. These then get printed out
and sent to the client for approval. Basically the printed "proof" needs to
match the yarn swatches as closely as possible.
Up to this point they had just done a RGB ring-around and picked the closest
one. What RGB? What light were they looking at the samples under? To top
things off they were also printing to an un-profiled Epson 1280.
I have borrowed a lovely spherical spectro from a colleague and am really
unsure how to proceed at this point. This will be the first time I've taken
exacting measurements of anything other than printed output. Textiles is a
new thing for me and I want to be sure I'm approaching it correctly. The
values vary widely if I take them from the side or the ends.
I'll be curious to hear some of your thoughts...
Regards,
Eric Bullock
Mac Business Solutions
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