The soutache pebbles are arranged in families to allow you to immerse yourself in a range of hues and compare subtle differences.
The black touchstone pebbles serve to gauge the depth of a tone in this wondrous world of colours…
The night blue compared to black, compared to enigma blue. The nuances between venetian spice and curry gold. The difference between dark brown and true brown.
To apprehend the subtleties in the violet range… amethyst gleams like a stone with the black touchstone used as a gauge. The petal like quality of lilac becomes almost translucent. One begins to see that courgette green contains a touch of black, that chartreuse and pistacchio glow in subtly different manners…
One can sense more finely the degree of paleness between pastel tones, compare the almost elusive nuances of yellow between poussin and mimosa, perceive the exquisite difference between peony and armenian rose of venice…
The black touchstone aids one in measuring the degree of jewel like radiance and glow in the bright tones…
The subtleties of the beige tones become more perceptible.
The venetian black in the metallic threads family , is indeed different to gondola black…