[Nfb-krafters-korner] Mid-week question - color?

[Susan Roe]

Linda,

I lost my sight at 15 and I have been totally blind for 33 years.  Your 
memories of colors will not fade over time, however, your vision/concept of 
a color will be hard to match threw someone elses perception.
Trust me, there is even a difference in color preception between my sister 
and husband.  My sister has painted for years and now deals with color 
through shading and tones of wood stains and my husband paints a bit, color 
pencil sketches and leans more to color tones in nature.  You know as well 
as I do that you can take a simple color orange and have at least 50 
variences of that one color.  We have quite a bit of banter between the 
three of us when it comes to choosing the exact color point I want to have 
in a project.

That is also why it is extremely important that if you are working on a 
large project whith a lot of only one or two colors, that you check the dye 
lot numbers on your yarn.  I was working on a rather large broom stick afgan 
which was mostly a forest green with narrow pannels of a smoky gray.  well, 
I had purchased 12 or more skeins of the green and had packed everything up 
to go on a two week trip to Northern California with my husband to visit his 
parents.  His mother, an avid knitter, was admiring several of the green 
pannels that I had already finished, and noticed all of my green was not the 
same shading.  I could have just died!  She fussed with Matt because she 
believed he should have noticed the difference when we purchased the yarn, 
but it really couldn't have been noticed when the skeins were all tumbled 
together in a large stack.  The numbers told the truth, so she helped me 
sort the two different shadings apart and I was able to then arrange the 
pannels so they could be seperated from each other with the narrow gray 
pannels.  All was not lost and I didn't have to rip every thing out.  My 
husband to this day still tells me "sorry dear" whenever I start asking for 
dye lot numbers.

Susan R.
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "River Woman" <riverwoman at zoominternet.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 4:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Mid-week question - color?


> Mary, you are so right. No one cares! Color is so personal.
> I do not see colors much at all any longer either. Most things are 
> brownish or flat gray. But occasionally I can see brilliant blues. I do 
> not see any nuances in colors at all.  Recently, I was talking with 
> another potter and we were looking at her new work. She described the 
> colors she was seeing her her glaze - pinks, yellows, etc.  I saw only a 
> plain brown pot. I had no idea it had all those colors in it.
>
> One thing I wonder about is this:  will my memory of color fade with time? 
> I have only been blind for 3 years, and I see things with my third eye 
> these days. I seldom think of myself as blind, but I plung on and most 
> people have no idea I cannot see unless they are around me long enough to 
> figure it out, or if they see me walk in with my cane. So, I wonder, will 
> my visual memory fade, or will it stay as it is today? Right now, I have a 
> photographic memory of things and colors. Does this change?
> Lynda
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "mary wurtzel" <marywurtzel at att.net>
> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 11:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Mid-week question - color?
>
>
>> Hello,
>> This discussion is truly facinating to me.  I have had a very small 
>> amount of siout in one eye.  It used to be a bit more when I was younger. 
>> Growing up, my favorite color was red because I could see it so well.  My 
>> engagement ring has a diamond inthe center but has rubies all around, and 
>> Fred's wedding band has some rubies on it.  Now red looks like a brownish 
>> greyish blob to me.  Now, if I am in bright sunshine  I can see yellow 
>> flowers or a yellow car.
>> I am laughing at what Henrietta said, because when I would ask our kids 
>> if something matched that I was going to wear, sometimes they would get 
>> into a fight over it.  I'm getting pretty convinced that noone cares much 
>> about what goes with what these days!!!!
>> Mary
>>
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