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The Shadecard website with the headline Photograph the cloth, read the color, mix the dye, next to a demo reading of a terracotta swatch
Guides Shadecard

How to match a fabric colour with your phone camera

A phone can get you close to a fabric's colour if you control the light, put a known reference (white paper or a grey card) in the frame, average several shots and lab dip.

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Shadecard My workspace with the Right first time card and sections for custom shades, favourites, measurements and the dip log
Explainers Shadecard

The lab dip process in textile dyeing, step by step

A lab dip is a small trial dyeing that proves a recipe before bulk. You dye swatches of the real fabric, compare them with the standard under agreed lights, correct and submit.

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Shadecard recipe calculator with the Weigh, Stock and Pad method chips, fabric weight, dye depth, water ratio and the Y:R:B ratio fields
Guides Shadecard

How to make and use a dye stock solution for lab dips

A 1% w/v stock is 1 g of dye made up to 100 mL. To dose a recipe, pipette mL = grams of dye × 100 ÷ stock %. Use a 0.1% stock for pale components so the volumes stay measurable.

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Recipes & the dyeing calculator Shadecard

From Shadecard recipe to lab dip: test, log and correct

Save the measurement, dye a small swatch from the calculator's stock volumes, measure the dried dip, then Log dip with the outcome and correction. Promote a proven recipe to My shades.

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