A custom blue color chart on silk from Pantone in a grid pattern with water stains in each center. Each square is a different shade of blue, including white to black saturation. Color signifiers are finely printed at the top and base of the silk, above the colored grids.

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Textile, Color Sample Blanket

This is a Textile. It was designed by Aliki van der Kruijs (Dutch, b. 1984). It is dated 2016 and we acquired it in 2018. Its medium is silk. It is a part of the Textiles department.

In preparation for creating textile patterns using rainfall, Aliki van der Kruijs created this sample blanket that explores how digital printing inks respond to water before they are fixed with heat. A range of shades and tints are created as dye is lifted and deposited along the tide lines.

It is credited Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.

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letterpress with collage on paperboard.
Smithsonian Libraries, QC495.2 .O88 1939.
92.2016.51

A twill woven cotton and merino wool blanket with twenty-five horizontal bands of color which increase and descrease in saturation in small block increments from one side to the other. The colors include violet, olive green, pink, pale blue and lemon yellow. At the top of the blanket the words [RAW COLOR, MULTITONE, INDEX COLLECTION] are printed in violet capital letters

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organic cotton warp, merino wool weft.
Gift of Raw Color.
2013-22-1

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54% cotton, 30% solution-dyed nylon, 15% post-consumer recycled polyester.
Gift of Momentum Group.
2013-36-4

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Its dimensions are

H x W: 295 × 140.3 cm (9 ft. 8 1/8 in. × 55 1/4 in.)

Cite this object as

Textile, Color Sample Blanket; Designed by Aliki van der Kruijs (Dutch, b. 1984); silk; H x W: 295 × 140.3 cm (9 ft. 8 1/8 in. × 55 1/4 in.); Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund; 2018-20-1

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2LpuvF/
Accession Number 2018-20-1
Object ID 1158866081