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  2. Non-photo blue - Wikipedia

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    Non-photo blue (or non-repro blue) is a common tool in the graphic design and print industry, [1] [2] being a particular shade of blue that cannot be detected by graphic arts camera film. This allows layout editors to write notes to the printer on the print flat (the image that is to be photographed and sent to print) which will not show in the ...

  3. Help:Using colours - Wikipedia

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    Typically they take a web page or image file as an input, and render a colour-blind simulated image as output: Mozilla Firefox color-blind addons; Sim Daltonism simulates color blind vision and displays the results in a floating palette for macOS and iOS. Freeware. Color Oracle downloadable, free color blindness simulator for Windows, Mac and ...

  4. Heather (fabric) - Wikipedia

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    Fundamentally it is a mixing of the different colored fibers and yarns combined in one fabric. The methods may involve one of the following Melange (yarn)—Fiber dyeing in different color and then mixing (in desired percentages) and spinning. Marl or Marled—Jaspe-Roving Grindle. Cross dyeing—Using blended yarns and cross dyeing

  5. Indigo dye - Wikipedia

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    The second method was known as 'China blue' due to its resemblance to Chinese blue-and-white porcelain. Instead of using an indigo solution directly, the process involved printing the insoluble form of indigo onto the fabric. The indigo was then reduced in a sequence of baths of iron(II) sulfate, with air oxidation between each immersion. The ...

  6. Dyeing - Wikipedia

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    Dyeing Pigments for sale at a market in Goa, India Cotton being dyed manually in contemporary India Silk dye in pan on stove. Khotan. Dyeing is the application of dyes or pigments on textile materials such as fibers, yarns, and fabrics with the goal of achieving color with desired color fastness.

  7. Yarn - Wikipedia

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    Yarn is selected for different textiles based on the characteristics of the yarn fibres, such as warmth (wool), light weight (cotton or rayon), durability (nylon is added to sock yarn, for example), or softness (cashmere, alpaca). Yarn is composed of twisted strands of fiber, which are known as plies when grouped together. [19]

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  9. Blue pencil (editing) - Wikipedia

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    Red and blue checking pencil. A blue pencil, also known as a checking pencil, is a two-color pencil traditionally used by an editor to correct a written copy. [1] The blue end is typically Prussian blue, and the red end is typically a warm vermilion red. [1] [2] They are most often half red and half blue, but some are 70% red and 30% blue. [3]