Re: SB: Global Earth Pigment Exchange (was re: Lime Plaster Tint Suggestions )

[David Neeley <dbneeley@earthlink.net>]

The only problem with the global Web catalog of clay colors, etc.--

Nice idea. However, not entirely practical. Color matching would be VERY 
difficult. Different cameras, scanners, monitor settings, browsers, etc. 
would all have their own color renditions.

This is a constant problem for color printers, by the way.

If you look at several different monitors at a computer store, you'll 
seldom find two displaying the same signal that show the colors precisely 
the same way. Multiply that by many times and you get the idea.

Closest might be to match clay colors to a standard color swatch...but not 
overly practical for non-graphics-oriented balers!

David



At 12:17 PM 5/31/2001 -0400, Robert W Tom wrote:
>Charmaine also wrote:
>Re: Lime Plaster Tint Suggestions?
>
> > I used a pure red adobe colored clay (harvested from the site
> >...other soils could work, , a yellow clay will give a goldish
>color..etc.
> >The lime and clay will bond nicely making a cement of its own.
> >My own local clay did not have the rich brown adobe color, so I was
>happy
> >to find dirt that did!
>
>With the magic of scanners and/or digital photography + the Web,
>it would be possible to create an on-line catalogue where images of
>sample earth  colours (contributed by Listmembers from around the globe)
>could be posted along with contact information so that anyone could make
>a request for the coloured earth of their choice, and the cost would be
>that
>of shipping + perhaps some sort of token of appreciation for the Dirt
>Shipper.


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