Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-17

rT,HE silk manufacturers, as we'll as
D the heads Of most Of the textile
and allied interests, receive their
standardized colors through the Tex
tile Color Card Association There
has been produced a color card that
is called the standard color card OF
America. This card contains log
trade colors, each one numbered to
indicate the strength Of the color as
well as the several colors that are
combined to give a certain effect.
AS, it is reported. practically all the
manufacturers jobbers and retailers
Of silks and colored fabrics have
agreed to adopt this standard color
card, and as more than 80 per cent |
of tho color consummation of the
country is to be found in these 106
tones, the trials and tribulatons OF
matching any shade of color are. 1t
is claimed. things of the past. Every
colored silk, fabric and accessory
manufactured is, it is said, numbered
according to standard color. Match
ing a shade of any color consequently
resolves itself into a comparison of
figures.
The Textile Color Card Association
was organized under the auspices of
big associations of millinery, dry
goods, cloak and suit, silk and dress
IA brics to do the work. The associa-
ton appointed a committee of seven
of the foremost color experts in the
United States. This committee worked
for a long time on the STANDARDIZED
ton. The association invited the
manufacturers jobbers and retailers
$ interested in the project to submit
samples of all the various colors and
shades handled by them. These sam
PIES Of silks and fabrics which were
Submitted were then classified &C
cording to shades.
The classification revealed the fact
that there were more than 1000 diff
ferent shades. For instance, there
were at least fifty different shades of
blue, each one of which was called
navy blue by the manufacturer or
iobber who submitted it. There were
almost as many shades of green
called Nile green. The object of the
color committee was to decide which
one Of the fifty so-called navy blues
was the true navy blue, which shade
of green was the true Nile green and
so on throughout the 1000 shades.
With infinite pains and d tremen-
dous amount of work the committee
finally agreed on los standard shades
trade colors. Dyers were then en-
ployed to produce the standardized
trade colors. and the standard color
card was issued to thousands os
manufacturers, jobbers and retailers
all over the country. The color card,
which is in the form OF a book, con-
tains 100 pieces of colored ribbon,
each piece named and numbered.
Not only have the names been
standardized, but also the numbers.
The numbers which have been given
10 the various shades indicate the
strength of the color. as we'll as the
several colors that are combined to
give a certain effect.
For example. the standard number
fo- turquoise is 6.153. The first, sec
ond and third figures indicate the
relative proportion of the component
parts of the color. The fourth figure
indicates the strength of the color
designated by the first three figures.
The first figure, 6, indicates the prin-
cipal color, blue; the second figure,
1. indicates that the principal blend
is white; the third figure, ., indicates
that the secondary blond is green,
and the final figure, ., indicates that
the color Is light in strength.