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- It is important for any craft person to
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- understand the basics of colour theory.
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- Traditional colour theory differs from
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- that used by dyers as dyes are not
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- opaque. That is, they are affected by
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- the base colour of the cloth and by
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- what colour dyes (see 'About Fibre
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- Reactive Dyes') have been mixed to
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- make the colour you are using. Mixing
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- paints, and mixing dyes are very different.
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- But it still helps to understand a colour
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- wheel (see Fig 1).