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Simple to use color wheels allow you to use fabric in helping to make your color decisions. Add in the Color Evaluators and you have the perfect combo for making decisions on fabric for your next quilt.


Over the Rainbow
Color Masking Tool

Color Wheel
by The Color Wheel Company

Create-a-Color Wheel
Color Evaluator II
Color Evaluator II

3-in-1 Color Tool
With View Window
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Rainbow & Tonal Color Selector Color Wheels and Tools


Rainbow Color Selector

Color Wheels & Mask Tool Sizes:
Large, Purse/Sm & Package with Both


Tonal Color Selector

Pick, Point & Match -- yes it is that easy!

Over the Rainbow Color Masking Tool
Over the Rainbow Or Tonal
Colorwheel Masking Tool

Includes:

  • 5 Double-sided Masking Templates
  • 10 Adhesive Attachment Pieces
  • Direction Sheet
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What makes the Rainbow Color Wheels Unique?

Color coordination is sometimes difficult for quilters. Your computer quilt is on the screen but you are stumped for sound color direction. Also, questions come up when working with a favorite fabric like, " Now what?" OR you want to add the edge to your quilt and make your fabric combination just a little different from everyone else. Well quilters cheer up, help is here!

The Color Selectors are the perfect color wheel to do just that because it is designed with see-through windows to place your fabric behind (see picture above), then the fun begins as the Rainbow Color Selector geometric shapes point out the perfect color combinations for you to try (see picture above).

Easy to Use:

  • Pick a main color by placing your FABRIC, paint chip, fiber, or paper under the closest match see-through window.
  • Point to your fabric window to one of the easy-to-see geometric shapes that create color matching schemes to help you out.
  • Match the numbers built into the color match.
  • YES, it is that easy!

Plus: Each Color Selector comes with a plain language guide that is easy to understand as it explains color combinations suggestions. What a great aide to the quilter who needs some help in the color confidence area.

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Color Evaluator II
Color Evaluator II

Red and Green to help determine fabric value
NOTE: More Info below

Viewing multiple fabrics through the red and green plastic strips reveals which fabrics are light, medium, or dark value. The red and green color of the plastic strips filter out the color information and leaving only the value of the selected fabrics you are evaluating. Knowing the value of the fabric before placing them in a quilt gives you the confidence and knowledge needed to choose which patches will be light, medium or dark and interact the way you expect in the block.

Use these tools helps prevent over use of fabrics with similar values and helps establish the dimension of a design. Use Red filter with Warm colors (red, yellow, orange, green) and use Green Filter with Cool colors (red violet, purple, blue, blue-green.)

Why green and red? Red has been used mostly in past color evaluator strips and the problem is viewing red fabrics through the evaluator produced very mixed results because of the similarity in color, thus using Green for cool clors and red for warm colors eleminates these problems.


Rainbow Color Selector

Large: 10 3/4"

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Rainbow Color Wheel
Rainbow Color Selector
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Item Code: 04D
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Rainbow Color Wheel
BOTH: Rainbow Color Selectors

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Over the Rainbow Color Masking Tool
Over the Rainbow
Color Masking Tool
Large: 10 3/4"

Item Code: 04D9
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Weight: 0.60 lb
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Color Evaluator II
Color Evaluator II

Item Code: 04D1
Weight: 1.20 lb
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Rainbow Color Wheel Color Evaluator II
Color Package

1. Color Evaluator II
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3. Purse Rainbow Selector
Item Code: 04D
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Rainbow Tonal Color Selector
Purse: 5"

Item Code: 04DT
Weight: 0.40 lb
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Rainbow Tonal Color Selector
Large: 10 3/4"

Item Code: 04DT
Weight: 0.60 lb
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BOTH: Rainbow Tonal Color Selectors

1. Large Rainbow Tonal Selector
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Item Code: 04DT
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Color Wheel Mixing Guide
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Color Wheel Mixing Guide
Large: 9 1/4"

Item Code: 04D02
Weight: 0.30
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Color Wheel Mixing Guide
Color Wheel Mixing Guide
Pocket: 5 1/8"

Item Code: 04D02
Weight: 0.15
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Color Wheel Mixing GuideColor Wheel Mixing Guide
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Item Code:
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CMY Primary Mixing Wheel

CMY Primary Mixing Wheel
7 3/4" diameter

MFG: The Color Wheel Company
Item Code: 04D11
Weight: 0.3 lb
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Learn how to mix a full spectrum of colors rom three primary colors (cyan, magenta and yellow), plus white and black.

CMY Primary Mixing Wheel and CMY Primary Workbook

CMY Primary Mixing Wheel and CMY Primary Workbook
7 3/4" in diameter

MFG: The Color Wheel Company
Item Code: 04D10
Weight: 0.4 lb
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Learn how to mix a full spectrum of colors rom three primary colors (cyan, magenta and yellow), plus white and black.

Pocket Guide to Mixing Color
Pocket Guide to Mixing Color
Size: 3" x 5"

MFG: The Color Wheel Company
Item Code: 04D04
Weight: 0.1 lb
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A folding version of our popular Color Wheel. Illustrates the result of mixing colors, tints, tones, and shades. Reverse side is uncoated to allow you to paint your own personal palette. Features gray scale, many definitions, and folds to 3" x 5" (7.6 cm x 12.7 cm) for storage and convenience.

Watercolor Wheel
Watercolor Wheel

Size: 9.5"
MFG:
The Color Wheel Company
Item Code: 04D07
Weight: 0.3 lb
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Developed by artist and author Dan Bartges, in cooperation with The Color Wheel Company

The Watercolor Wheel shows 144 combinations of the most common watercolors to aid in selecting and mixing. This product also provides visual examples of graduated washes from mass to under tones created from the actual watercolors.

The Watercolor Wheel™ features:

  • Mixtures created with actual watercolors
  • Painted on real watercolor paper
  • Color Schemes and Relationships
  • Glossary of 20 Key Terms and Definitions
  • 9 ½ inches in diameter
  • Two sided rotating wheel
  • Includes Value Scale A valuable tool for all Watercolorists

 

The Web Wheel
The Web Wheel

Size: 7 3/4"
Item Code: 04D09
MFG:
The Color Wheel Company
Our price $7.20
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The Web Wheel was designed as a reference tool to provide easy, desktop access to all 216 web-safe colors. The wheel lists all HTML & RGB values right on the color you select. Unique & easy to use for amateurs & professionals. Also illustrates color relationships, includes a value scale, and is UV coated for protection and durability!

Create-a-Color Wheel

Create-A-Color Wheel
(black & white)
Size: 9 1/4"

MFG: The Color Wheel Company
Item Code: 04D06
Weight: 0.4 lb
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An uncolored color wheel ready for you to paint your own favorite colors. A practical, hands-on, tool for teaching painting, mixing colors, and color relationships. Use your favorite medium; oil colors, tube or jar acrylics, pastels, watercolors, etc. Diameter 9 1/4".

Interior Design Color Wheel
Interior Design Color Wheel

Size: 8 1/2" x 11"
MFG: The Color Wheel Company
Item Code: 04D05
Weight: 0.3 lb
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Guide to Colors That Harmonize for Interior Design. The Interior Design Wheel gives home decorators a guide for selecting complementary colors for interior design. The wheel illustrates split complementary, monochromatic, and harmonized color schemes. Packed in a sleeve for insertion in a three-ring binder. 8 1/2" x 11".

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Book and 3-1 Color Tool Pkg.

1. Color Play
2. 3-in1 Color Tool
Item Code: 4L0340B
Weight: 2.20 lb
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3-in-1 Color Tool
New and Improved
Same great price!

Author: Joen Wolfrom
Publisher: C&T Publisher
Item Code: 4l0340A
Weight: 0.60 lb
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Includes these must have tools:

  1. Color Guide
  2. Fabric Preview Windows
  3. Value Finder
  4. and MORE including instructions on how to use the tool and a small color wheel for reference.

Enclosed in a reusable vinyl pouch 24 color cards fastened pages 2.625” x 8”


Author: Joen Wolfrom
Publisher: C&T Publishing
Size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Pages: 143 pages, full color
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4L0340
Weight: 1.00 lb
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3-in-1 Color toolCreate perfect color combinations every time with this indispensable tool for Quilters, Needleworker, and Crafters. The 3-in-1 Color tool is a color-planning tool that helps you choose great combinations every time!

3-in-1 Color tool
There is NO need to know color theory, because the back of each color family card has the Color Wheel solutions spelled out with a color chart showing the Monochromatic, Complementary, Analogous, Split-complementary, and Triad solutions

Pick a favorite color or fabric

Match the color to one of the 24 Color Cards and 100s of individual swatches, numbered for your convenience

Each Color Card features one pure color with 16 variations specific to the color family in tints (white added), shades (black added) and tones (gray added.) Once your color scheme has been chosen, use each color's Color Card to help you determine your colors or fabrics. NOTE: It is not possible to include every possibility for a color, so you match to the closest family. Care has been taken to ensure that a complete range of colors has been addressed.

Choose a color scheme from the 6 options provided for each color

Find the Color Card for each color in the color scheme

Select Fabrics that match the Color Cards

Value Finder (red and green translucent plastic) Use to view and determine contrast without the distractions of color. Using the Value Finder will help you determine which color on the Color Card is the correct value.

Fabric Preview Window (see next example) 3 fabric preview cut out windows to isolate and audition your fabrics with that allows you to see what a specific area of a fabric will look like in relationship to a specific section of a fabric.

The color wheel schemes are defined on two cards with brief descriptions. For example: Complementary: Select two colors that lie opposite each other on the color wheel.

The Color Cards can be arranged to fan out on its pivot hinged screw to form a color wheel.



Magic Palette Color Matching Guide

Magic Palette Color Matching Guide
Take the Guess Work Out of Choosing Colors

Size: 6" x 2"
MFG: Color Wheel Company
Item Code: 04D8
Weight: 0.40 lb
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Product Information:

The Magic Pallette® Color Matching Guide helps artists identify, match and select the colors they need for their paintings. The unique viewing windows allow the artist to preview hundreds of potential new color combinations and to mix and match colors.

  • Set includes 36 pure artist's tube colors printed on individual cards with 144 tints and shades.
  • Each color cards shows one original tube color with a value range from light tint to dark shade.
  • The color matching cards can be easily removed from the ring binder for use.
  • The Color Matching Guide is an indispensable tool for artists and designers at any experience level and is ideal for use in the classroom, studio or on location.
  • The Color Matching Guide is the perfect companion to the Color Mixing Guide, also by Magic Palette.
  • Actual product size 6” x 2”

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Artist’s Paint Colors and Pigments:

  • Cadmium Yellow Light (PY35)
  • Cadmium Yellow Medium (PY37)
  • Naples Yellow Hue (PY43,PY37,PW6,PW4)
  • Yellow Ochre (PY43)
  • Indian Yellow (PY83)
  • Cadmium Orange (PO20)
  • Cadmium Red Light (PR108)
  • Cadmium Red Medium (PR108)
  • Quinacridone Red (PV19
  • Cadmium Red Deep (PR108)
  • Alizarin Crimson (PR83)
  • Quinacridone Magenta (PR122)
  • Quinacridone Violet (PV19)
  • Cobalt Violet (PV14)
  • Dioxazine Purple (PV23)
  • Ultramarine Blue (PB29)
  • Cobalt Blue (PB28)
  • Cerulean Blue (PB35)
  • Prussian Blue (PB27:1)
  • Magnanese Blue Hue (PB15:4)
  • Phthalo Blue (PB15:1)
  • Phthalo Turquoise (PB15:2,PG7)
  • Cobalt Teal (PB28)
  • Payne’s Grey (PB29,PBk11,PY42)
  • Phthalo Emerald (PB36)
  • Chromium Oxide Green (PG17)
  • Perm. Green Light (PY74,PG7)
  • Sap Green (PB15,PY83)
  • Cadmium Green (PY35,PG18)
  • Olive Green (PBr7,PY74,PB15:1)
  • Raw Sienna (PBr7)
  • Burnt Sienna (PBr7)
  • Indian Red (PR101)
  • Burnt Umber (PBr7)
  • Raw Umber (PBr7)
  • Ivory Black (PBk9)
  • Plus: Titanium White (PW6,PW4)


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