The first and second days of colour in India

We held the first Day of Colour in India at KCT in Coimbatore. We were honoured to meet the principal Dr Joseph Thanikal as well as Professors and HOD of Fashion Technology, DR Ramachandralu, as well as Dr D'Souza. Professor and HOD Textile Technology. Mr Sankaran Professor and Head coordinator made sure our tour of the facilities were successful. Siva arranged the event and I gave a talk on colour perception, best practice , Ramya Kandiyoor from International Colour Solutions presented about how important it is to have the right colour standards and Llaxmi Natarajan an inspirational designer based in Australia encouraged the students to share the design concepts.

I need to mention here how impressive the main building was it looked like a palace and you can see it in the back drop of one of the pictures.

We held the second Day of Colour at PSG in Coumbatore, unfortunately I don't have any photographs but the same event was held with the same speakers. Dr T Ramachandran hosted the event very well. It was here that we saw the most amazing sari design with 164,000 hues.

'Global Textile Opportunities – Vision India'

I attended the TAI conference in Mumbai on 16 to 17 January and presented a lecture on Best Practice and Innovation in Colour Assessment and Communication on the morning of 17th. I attended the SDC EC trustee meeting on 16th and we discussed the forthcoming training courses and the conference in Goa. It was good to meet the trustees and many of my old friends at the conference. Please see Vilas Gupte who invited me to speak at the TAI conference on the right,

The first Colour Management for Textiles Diploma modules were held in December at Verivide in Leicester. The attendees came fro Next, Panache and John Lewis. The courses were highly successful and all attendees achieved a pass of over 75%. Well done to everyone. The comments were that the courses were excellent and wished they had been held before. They did want to spend a longer time with each modules as they had so many questions! We will address these on Modules 3 and 4 when we repeat some of the content again. in more detail and these and more questions will be answered. The chief tutors were myself and Janet Best.