Silk Mill Sale

[Mabel Figworthy]

If and when I ever get the whole collection, I'll send you small samples of all 700

[richardandtracy]

Just working on the images shown on their sale web page. Actually sampled the first 60 colours of their range. Hopefully, they've all been photographed in reasonably similar conditions so any colour cast is similar between the various swatches. The program I've written takes an average of the colour over a sample area, and gives a colour that takes into account the shadows, highlights and everything in between. The larger the area of the swatch available, the better the accuracy, but with more than a 30x30 area of pixels sampled, changing the sample area to a different part of the swatch photo rarely makes much difference.

Regards,

Richard.

[richardandtracy]

Well, have managed the first 607 colours from the Silk Mill, got another 150 odd to go, and here's a swatch of what I've sampled so far (consecutively in numerical order from 3001-3478 & 4001-4139, missing out the only one between those numbers that has no swatch image on the web site):

Looks fairly good so far, but is a bit more work than I expected.

Regards,

Richard

[Mabel Figworthy]

Is the Light Mink missing from the list? (I think that's the one I can't see either).

I'd be careful of basing it on their website, partly because of what you know as well as I do, namely that colours on a website may not be an absolutely accurate representation of the real-life colours, and partly because frommy order I think some of the colours may be represented by the wrong photograph. They're looking into it for me, but these are a series of blues I ordered:

[richardandtracy]

Those 3 advertising images are definitely wildly different from the threads.
Not good if they can't get the right photos attached to the right colour. The threads with the correct sleeve visible in the site photo are obviously less unreliable than the unmarked ones. Despite this, the swatches are the best available information - by virtue of being the only information available without spending £1400!

It is incumbent on them, under advertising regs, to accurately describe their goods, and in this case colour is an integral part of the description. And not only in a legal sense is it a good idea to show the correct colour - it's bad publicity to give their customers something different from what they expect. I think they need to pull a finger out..

I couldn't remember off hand what the missing colour was, but yes, it is the Mink.

Regards,

Richard.

[Mabel Figworthy]

keep getting reassuring "it's very busy but we are going to deal with it" emails, but not much really happening - no reply to email from last Tuesday, so FB messaged them. (Besides the wrong blues there were also some shades missing and two duplicates - although to their credit they told me to keep those or pass them on to friends).