01 / Daylight1
Sight the card against your facade
A colour that reads correctly in the office can go flat or warm next to the actual cladding. Take the card outside and hold it against the material it will sit beside.
21 colours
Samples
See the colour before you commit to a roll
A display cannot show you a coated fabric in daylight. We send A4 swatch cards free, and cut roll samples against freight cost where a project needs a piece to handle at full size.
What arrives
A card settles colour. A piece settles everything else.
The A4 swatch card is the reference we produce to, so it is the right thing for choosing between two colours that look similar on screen. What a card cannot show is drape, stiffness, or how the weave behaves when it is backlit. For that you need a piece in your hand, which is why roll samples exist. Send the application and the colour shortlist, and say which of the two you need.
A4 swatch cards
Free. The full colour set on card, which is the production reference for colour.
Roll samples
Cut from stock against freight cost, where a project needs the cloth at full size.
Technical data
The specification table and the SGS report references go out with the samples.
Before you order
Three checks worth doing with a sample in hand
Each one catches a problem that a photograph cannot show.
Open the colour range
02 / Backlight2
Hold the weave up to a window
Openness is a geometric property: it is the share of the surface left open between the yarns. Backlit, the difference between 3% and 5% is immediate, and it is the difference you will live with.
3% and 5%
03 / Edge3
Cut a corner and look at it
Dip coating carries PVC through each yarn rather than sitting on the surface, so a clean cut should not shed loose filaments. Cut a corner of the sample and check the edge before you plan your workshop process.
Crush or ultrasonic cut
Questions
About samples
How the cards and the roll samples differ, and what to send when you ask.
A4 swatch cards are free. Roll samples are arranged against freight cost.