Colour chart, Gobelins, Mobilier National, Paris

Wool colour samples at NIMES, the Colour Chart of the Mobilier National, in the Atelier de Teinture et Nuancier, or Dyeing and Colour Chart Workshops, at the Gobelins Manufactory, a historic tapestry workshop, at Le Mobilier National, which commissions and conserves state furniture, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. In 1838 Eugene Chevreul created his chromatic circle, with 3 base colours giving 72 tones and 14, 400 colours, which is now digitised and used for mixing synthetic dyes. The current colour chart was devised in 1986 and contains samples of dyed wool in all colours, sorted by hue, clarity, saturation as well as a digital database. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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75013 Atelier Chevreul Choosing Chromatic Classification Comparison Conservation Couronne Database Drawer Dyeing Garde-meuble Gobelins Manufactory Mixing Mobilier Nimes Nuancier Sampling Selecting Shade Tapestry Teinture Tincture Tone

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