Easy online tool for making color schemes

[Rune]

Hi!

Dharma Trading, who sells fiber reactive dyes for tie dye etc, they have a color tool for making your own palette. It is ment to help buyers of fiber reactive dyes figure out which colors to buy. But it definately can work for soapmaking as well.

The tool is beyond easy to use. Just drag color chips from the list and drop them at the left side of the screen, where it says "My Palette". You can choose from a ton of color chips, every color exept white. But white is the bacground of the color tool, so there you have it. And you can change the size of each color, just drag from the corner of each chip.

Here is the link (it is not affilliate link): https://www.dharmatrading.com/dyes/dharma-fiber-reactive-procion-dyes.html?lnav=dyes.html

I just though it might be helpful for those struggling to pick colors. I used it today, and made a quick color scheme (as you can see in the attached image) for the soap I hopefully will make tomorrow.

 

[Deborah Long]

@Rune - Thanks! I always struggle with colors!

 

[user 29721]

I came across something simpler and specific to soapmakers today: https://nurturesoap.com/pages/color-blender

 

[Rune]

@geniash That tool is actually useful for blending fiber reactive dyes too. Thank you!

 

[dibbles]

I came across something simpler and specific to soapmakers today: https://nurturesoap.com/pages/color-blender

This is a good tool but it's for blending different ratios of two Micas to get a third shade.

 

[SaltedFig]

Another tool you might like:

https://www.sessions.edu/color-calculator/

(This one lets you pick one or more colours from a colour wheel, and then you choose the colour harmony you want, and it will give you the other colours in that harmony )

 

[Rune]

@SaltedFig Wow! That is a superb tool! Thanks!

 

[earlene]

Yes, we used the one SaltedFig linked in an SMF challenge a couple of years or so ago. It was great fun.

But I do appreciate the others as well. Carrie at Nurture soaps did a mica mixing workshop at a soaping conference I attended (as did another soaper here at SMF) and I don't recall if that tool was on their site at that time or not. It's a wonderful tool!

The fiber site is cool, too, because I love exploring fiber dyes, having done some wool dying in the past. It's something I want to explore more one of these days.

 

[SaltedFig]

Yes, we used the one SaltedFig linked in an SMF challenge a couple of years or so ago. It was great fun.

But I do appreciate the others as well. Carrie at Nurture soaps did a mica mixing workshop at a soaping conference I attended (as did another soaper here at SMF) and I don't recall if that tool was on their site at that time or not. It's a wonderful tool!

The fiber site is cool, too, because I love exploring fiber dyes, having done some wool dying in the past. It's something I want to explore more one of these days.

I thought it looked familiar, Earlene!
(Link, for interested folk: https://www.soapmakingforum.com/threads/november-challenge-entry-thread.61668/)

 

[Rune]

Dyeing with fiber reactive dyes are really easy, way easier than soapmaking. Safer too. I'm just starting to explore it myself. I have not done tie-dyeing yet. What I have done is the low water immersion dyeing. And that is lots of fun, with great results and very easy to do. This christmas I dyed t-shirts and gave as gifts. The most stunning results I got from t-shirts in bamboo viscose. That material gives more depth of color, while cotton is somewhat dull in comparison. They say mercerized cotton gives really great result. For those who don't know, mercerization is to treat a cellulose fabric with lye while it is stretched. It gives it more strenght and more shine, after what I have read.

I had plans for snow dyeing, and have to hurry up before it all melts. It is still plenty, but rapidly melting away under the rain.

I want to dye hoodies, but can't find one that is not full of polyester. I did dye a hoodie in the washing machine. I could not understand what went wrong, it was the most dull color ever, until I read the label. 60-something percent polyester. I just assumed hoodies were made of 100% cotton. But not anymore. The color was called autumn something and was mustard looking. My sweater came out dull beige because of that dreadful polyester they stuff in everything these days.