Much has been written on colour and there are some great
books & web sites designed to help quilters make their choices. However, Morocco
encourages you to be bold.It’s like
spring cleaning your favourites (and your mindset), then rethinking what you
know and are game to try.
Fes
To begin, it's worth deciding on the look you are trying to
achieve.Research helps with this.We have art history books full of “movements”
or schools of thought and the various colour schemes they supported.What colour personality are you?Do you prefer pastels, jewels, intense, vivid
or contrasting palettes?
Traditional Berber Blue in Merzouga
Morocco encourages us to try a palette of deep saturated hues of blue, purples,
dark reds, oranges and gold.Add
highlights of pale blues, earthy browns, dusky yellows, leafy greens and dusky
pinks. Perhpas you could limit your choices to two dominant
colours and mix in three as accents to add sparkle. White can add freshness or black moodiness to
your scheme.
Sahara Sunrise
It is also worth mentioning that colour has meaning in Morocco. Simplistically, green is the colour of Islam and blue wards off evil spirits, including mosquitos...
