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The melton tobacco is an incredible cloth and scandalously underused, it is true.

I am sure either the peacoat or another coat will make use of it again next year (but not this year). We do have a couple of cloths from the same mill which are the same in spirit, too, including a heavy barathea which we've used for the field shirt and dress trousers. It comes in a tobacco-adjacent colour which, while quite different to the melton, is similarly rich in colour and great in texture.
 

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Cheers! It is red-ish in some lights, very grey in others ... a mystery colour.
Limits of screens and all that, but one of the things I love about wool is the depth and variegation in shade that it's capable of.
 

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Limits of screens and all that, but one of the things I love about wool is the depth and variegation in shade that it's capable of.

Indeed. I never tire of looking at some of these cloths, even after many years of use.

It is however maddening when taking and editing photographs, as I can never trust my eye, especially in shades like the tobacco, where when looked at closely is a deceptively uniform shade (there are three or four main shades at work in the yarn) ... and then on top of that, the light, and the computer screen ...
 

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Indeed. I never tire of looking at some of these cloths, even after many years of use.

It is however maddening when taking and editing photographs, as I can never trust my eye, especially in shades like the tobacco, where when looked at closely is a deceptively uniform shade (there are three or four main shades at work in the yarn) ... and then on top of that, the light, and the computer screen ...
Do you keep one version of each garment you make for the archives?
 

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Alas no!

Sara always says we should (have done) ... but in the sturm and drang of running the business we never got around to it.

I very much not a natural archivist, either.

I'd sooner chop up the archive to try to make improvements the next time we make a piece, rather than having them hanging around for memory / posterity.
 

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It's almost that time of the year again.

Have you picked out what you will be using for the gansey?
 

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It's almost that time of the year again.

Have you picked out what you will be using for the gansey?

It is, isn't it?

The calm before the storm!

The gansey will come back in dark navy (darker than last year, but lighter and more textured than the year before, when it was almost plain dark navy) AND in a dark biscuit colour. We haven't made any changes to it apart from lengthening the (or was it shortening) sleeves to fine-tune the fit.
 

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The biscuit is the natural culmination of all the different grain colours you've had lately then. I feel like you can already put me down for one large biscuit.
 

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The biscuit is the natural culmination of all the different grain colours you've had lately then. I feel like you can already put me down for one large biscuit.

I'll put you down for one large biscuit right this second.

Lots of grain colours about the place, it is true, with wheat and oatmeal and all the rest of it — a veritable granola of options.
 

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is there any way for us to see the wools beforehand? Especially the dark biscuit one :D
 

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An eminently reasonable request.

No.

We don't make samples (aside from the monochromatic "fit samples") in knitwear anymore, so these days we pick the colours of yarn and away the knitters go. We're as blind as you until the delivery.

This has only gone wrong once.
 

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An eminently reasonable request.

No.

We don't make samples (aside from the monochromatic "fit samples") in knitwear anymore, so these days we pick the colours of yarn and away the knitters go. We're as blind as you until the delivery.

This has only gone wrong once.
That is a good odd. Please sign me up for a biscuit in Small/Med
 

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