{"id":732,"date":"2008-10-08T22:40:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T02:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=732"},"modified":"2009-05-30T22:25:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T02:25:44","slug":"matching-web-fabric-to-real-fabric-can-it-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"matching web fabric to real fabric – can it be done?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I had the pleasure of being the first guest in a telecast hosted by The Professional Quilter <\/a>magazine. The topic was digital-related and it covered a few of the topics in my book<\/a>. I was looking forward to taking questions.\u00a0 However, the format of the telecast didn’t allow for me to hear questions from participants but rather to take them through email.\u00a0 The following is one of the questions I received.\u00a0 I’m sharing it and my answer in the hopes that it will be helpful to someone else in this situation.<\/p>\n

The question:<\/strong>
\nI am trying to sell hand-dyed fabrics and am concerned about my potential customers being concerned that the color on their monitor will be the same as the fabric they receive. I was thinking of adding a swatch of white to each photo? Will this help.<\/p>\n

Answer<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

It won’t hurt, and it may give a point of reference knowing that the swatch should read white. Thus if the white fabric reads darker than it should, chance are the hand-dyed fabric would also be darker.<\/p>\n

The main question is can you match what your customer sees on his\/her monitor to the actual fabric they receive. The answer is you generally cannot guarantee what your customer sees.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 There are several factors that are outside of your control.\u00a0 They include:<\/p>\n