Color Palettes and resource tools

 It is important to know what colors work and will not be in the printing range for your printer. I highly recommend ordering swatches of your designs before ordering yardage from any print on demand service.
Here is a link to download the Spoonflower color palettes: http://www.spoonflower.com/colorguide
Color discussions: http://morecloth.com/blog/?p=218
Here is a site dedicated to color:
ColorLover

Below, a fusionwear sv image submission by Matthew  Ebisu is taken into this software and  I selected five colors from the available palette range. You can see my selection of five colors in the bottom row. The color palette to the right is generated by Photocopa.  I will be using this tool to define the color palettes of the digital textiles I am crating for the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. This is one more way to integrate publicly submitted images of Silicon Valley into the textile designs.
This has a very clean interface and the website colourlovers.com has many forums, links and tools relating to color palettes...a very useful resource for any designer.Photocopa
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spoonflower color guide