An acrylic and polyester color blanket woven with chenille yarns. The blanket consists of a grid five columns by nine rows where shades of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet range from pastels to grey-ish hues. The right-most column of the grid is pastel in shade, moving to the grey tones on the left, and the rows are yellow to orange to red to green to blue to indigo to violet from top to bottom.

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2016	We acquired this object. We photographed this object. Work on this object began.
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Color Blanket, Hint, 2016

This is a Color blanket. It was produced by Designtex (American, founded 1961). It is dated 2016 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is 50% acrylic, 50% polyester and its technique is plain woven with chenille yarns. It is a part of the Textiles department.

Focusing on durable textiles that meet high performance applications for healthcare, education, hospitality, corporate and residential, Designtex created Hint. The fiber is specially formulated to be bleach cleanable for healthcare applications and easy to clean for all other applications. The designers added a comforting hand through the use of chenille yarns, without sacrificing performance and cleanability. Hint bridges the gap between the useful and the beautiful.
Usually a color blanket like this would be cut up with desired colors returned to the mill for production. The museum requested this color blanket from Designtex because of the difficulty of showing solid fabrics, and to better impart to the museum audience the process by which colorways are ultimately selected for a fabric line.

This object was donated by Designtex. It is credited Gift of Designtex Group.

Textile (USA)
mohair.
1965-15-1

Manufacturer's Color Blanket (USA)
synthetic.
Gift of Harvey Smith.
1968-135-76

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

Our curators have highlighted 13 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

A color trend book standing vertically and open so that the left hand page displays text, stating [NATURALISTE], [NATURALIST] in black capitals, and seven square blocks of color, the four on the left are earthen tones, brown, yellow ochre, olive green, and emerald green, and the three on the right are crimson, blue and violet. The right hand page illustrates a landscape at sunset, with a brown bear standing on some moss-covered rocks in the foreground, overlooking a lake in the distance. Infront of the book are three sheets of color samples using colored thread. There are twelve threads on each sheet in four rows and three columns. The first sheet covers cream, yellow, orange, brown, pink and red. The second sheet covers shades of blue and purple. The third shades of green, brown, white, grey and black.

Color Trend Book, Fall/ Winter 2019/20, 2019
mixed media.
Courtesy of PeclersParis.
s-e-2667

Colour Terrise Sample Plate
glazed porcelain.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment.
2005-11-2

Book opened up, on the left side reads 'Standard Color Card of America. On the right side are multi colored fabric swatches in 12 various colors. The left side of the page shows a column of 6 fabric swatches in a multitude of colors such as gold, brown and a burnt orange. On the right side of the page shows a column o 6 fabric swatches in colors ranging from violet, purple, mint green and dark green.

Sample Book, Standard Color Card of America, 9th Edition
label: board covers, printed cardboard pages, silk samples.
Gift of The Color Association of the United States, Inc..
1960-82-1

Its dimensions are

H x W: 491.5 × 144.1 cm (16 ft. 1 1/2 in. × 56 3/4 in.)

Cite this object as

Color Blanket, Hint, 2016; Produced by Designtex (United States); 50% acrylic, 50% polyester; H x W: 491.5 × 144.1 cm (16 ft. 1 1/2 in. × 56 3/4 in.); Gift of Designtex Group; 2016-20-1

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/R34cx/
Accession Number 2016-20-1
Object ID 554909289