The Atlas
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These palettes are named after real places and translated photographs. Your role is to attach the location and people to each palette. These color ways will become attached to our textile traditions based on your research and review.
Each subject below becomes an entry in the Atlas: where the tradition comes from, the regions where people still practice it, who makes it today, what it gets mistaken for, and the sources behind every claim. The palettes are attached at the end.
In order. Each one says why it matters — start at the top and work down. If something is wrong or blocked, say so rather than skipping it.
Stacey writes here when something needs a source or a second look. Replies stay with the entry for good — nobody can edit a note after it is written.
An article with no sources of its own is a starting point, not a source. Follow it back to something you can cite, or leave it out. Only list sources you have actually read.
Name the places this tradition comes from and where people still make it. Search first. If the place is already listed, pick it, so we do not end up with two entries for the same region.
Name the artisans, workshops, cooperatives and teachers who practice it now. Write down what makes you confident, such as the museum record or article where you found them.
Write down the wrong label people use, what it actually is, and how the mistake started. This is the part almost nobody publishes, and it is the most useful thing in the entry.
Add photos of the real textile. You can upload your own picture or paste a link to one from a museum or archive. Always say who took it or who owns it.
If you used Field Read to capture colors from real cloth, attach those readings here. Photos never leave the phone, so what you are attaching is the color reading itself.
These palettes are named for your subject. Check the ones your writing covers. Then add the one line a shopper will read under the palette name.
This removes the entry and everything attached to it — sources, pictures, links. It cannot be undone from here. Say why, and the reason is kept even though the entry is not.
Nothing you write goes public until Stacey reads it. Your name stays on it for good.