These colour charts have been created using a mixture of Lara Downs yarns, hand dyed in our most popular colourways. These colourways are applicable to all Lara Downs hand dyed yarns, fibres & fabrics eg tops, lap, curls, lengths of silk etc. When selecting your preferred colourway to order, please note that the appearance and depth of colour may vary a little from those shown below, depending on your choice of yarn/fibre eg pure wool will give deeper shades than mohair or silk using the same dye bath. For example - see Pink Marble No 5 - the first swatch is in cashmere (soft hues), the 2nd swatch is wool (stronger hues). Also see Rock Pool No 28 1st swatch is in wool (gives deep shades with matt finish), the 2nd swatch is silk (shiny and lighter in hue). Other swatches have both silk and wool or silk and mohair to give both shiny and matt finishes in the same swatch. Other swatches combine boucle and smooth yarns. You can copy these effects by ordering several different yarns and knitting (or weaving or crocheting) them together or sequentially. Actual samples of the Lara Downs colourways in our different yarns, can be viewed at Precious Purl or purchased (see below).
Another point to note: hues numbered 11 S to 20 S are the semi-solid versions of random mixed hues numbered 1-10, some sharing the same name. For this reason, you need to nominate the hue/shade name as well as its number when ordering. There are several other semi-solid shades outside this numerical range and these also carry "S" after their number. Several hues carry A or B as a suffix. These indicate small variations on a theme.
We have ordered our colourways firstly by colour groupings, and later we will add them by numerical sequential code as well . We hope that these two options will give you as much flexibility as possible, in finding colourways and making your choice for your Lara Downs yarn or fibre. All of these colourways are unique to Lara Downs and are copyright © |
