The DU Lounge

...on what to call some of the colors in the beautiful rugs he sells. I was a customer initially, and when I was in his shop for the first time, I admired a pair of matching rugs that he was creating a description for. He said he was trying to decide what to call one of the red shades. I commented that it looked like pomegranate seeds. He agreed with delight, and said that pomegranate juice was one of the natural dyes used to color the yarns.

To help with choosing color names, I got myself the biggest box of Crayola crayons, and the biggest box of their colored pencils, and I take those with me when the rug merchant calls on me for a color consultation.

This gentleman is an engineer by profession, and took over his father's rug business when his dad wanted to retire. I'm a retired nurse practitioner, so neither of us has any formal background in the arts in any way. Collaborating with him is fun and interesting, I've learned a lot, and I feel very honored that he values my opinion. I've also purchased several rugs from him.

Here's an odd thing - when I was around 10 years old, I noticed that one of my eyes perceives warm colors more brightly, and the other eyes sees cool colors more intensely when I'm out in bright sunlight (can't remember which one does which at the moment, and it's night so I can't test it.)

Anyway, my favorite colors:
- many shades of pink, usually the more subtle ones
- teal
- turquoise
- dark green
- deep chocolate brown
- maroon
- aubergine
- many shades of purple and lavender

I do like red but didn't wear any red during the first TACO Don administration because I didn't want anyone thinking I was a MAGAt. Not wearing any now either, except for one soccer hoodie sweatshirt in support of a Welsh soccer team. I won't buy a red car, either.