Undyed Flax sets the weight of the palette in warmth and creativity, and Indigo is the swatch that breaks rank: a single blue that stops the set reading as one note. Saturation averages 32 percent, present without shouting, with Madder Red carrying most of it. Undyed Flax and Indigo sit on opposite sides of the temperature line, which is the tension the palette runs on and the pair to hold apart.
Undyed Flax signals warmth, approachability, and creative energy, friendlier than red, louder than yellow.
Indigo is the most trusted color in color psychology: competence, stability, calm, used constantly by institutions that need to be believed.
Walnut a dusty taupe-brown, quiet and unassuming.
Madder Red carries urgency and appetite, the color the eye finds first.
Iron Grey is true neutrality, balance and restraint, a color that recedes so the palette's other choices can carry the emotional weight.
The textile as the subject: irregular weave, visible hand stitching, decided patchwork, hand-dyed variation and repair, in silhouettes plain enough to show it
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