Always willing to show my ignorance, I wonder why no one has  
mentioned the old Kidd and Kidd, Canadian Historic Sites Occasional  
Paper in Archaeology and History, No. 1, 1970 article, "A  
Classification System for Glass Beads for the use of Field  
Archaeologists."  It included a fairly simple color system derived  
from Descriptive Color Names Dictionary, Container Corporation of  
America, Taylor, Helen D, Lucille Knoche, and Walter Granville (Eds.)

Perhaps that publication is too obscure to access, but the article  
included good color examples that were from BEADS, not soils, and  
therefor very useful.  While not so scientific as Munsell, it was  
eminently useable.   Now, I suppose it is possible that Karlis  
Karklins and Co. have demonstrated conclusively the uselessness of  
this scheme, but if so, it slipped by my attention.

Good luck.

Pat Martin


On Aug 25, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Kate and Silas wrote:

For the free, downloadable Munsell color convertor etc.

http://livingstonmanor.net/Munsell/File%20Downloads.htm


Includes the entire book of color/Munsell color space

Silas Hurry
HSMC


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From: Rita Eagle <[log in to unmask]>

> Hi Iain,
>
> Thanks very much for taking time to give me these suggestions.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Rita Eagle
>
>
> On 8/24/08, Iain Stuart wrote:
>>
>> I think there have been extracts of the colour charts made for  
>> specific
>> purposes. Mostly I have encountered them in the geo-sciences. In  
>> Australia
>> there is a book which has pages of colours most likely to be found  
>> when
>> describing Australian soils (mostly yellow-reds) but these would  
>> not be
>> suitable I imagine for trade beads.
>>
>>
>>
>> There are various standards for paint colours which I have seen  
>> used for
>> describing colours of transfer printed ceramics but again they are  
>> costly
>> but as I recall a bit less than the Munsell book.
>>
>>
>>
>> There are various colour wheels used in interior design that might  
>> be worth
>> looking into.
>>
>>
>>
>> yours
>>
>>
>>
>> Dr Iain Stuart
>>
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>>
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