RECOGNIZATION OF COLOR NAME AND COLOR DIFFERENCE ON PILE FABRICS

Abstract

This is a paper concerned with investigating and discussing how the specialists' or consumers' groups perceive the color names and color differences of pile fabrics.The results obtained are as follows.(1) Specialists assigned most of color names to the colorimetric ones, but those perceived by consumers did not agree well with the colorimetric ones. A long term training for the specialists in the color recognition results in the exact recognition of the surface colors of pile fabrics and in the proper assignments of the color name. On the other hand, consumers do not realize the correct meanings of the tone adjectives for the lack of experience.(2) The color names perceived by specialists and consumers by the use of the standard color chips corresponded well to the colorimetric ones.(3) The correlation coefficient between the color differences perceived by specialists and the colorimetric ones was very high, but the coefficient for the consumers' was low. This fact also indicates as that specialists have established the standard colors for the judgement of color differences by a long term experience on the color differences.