I was thinking that it might be nice to have a way of identifying, say, the 6 most important colors in a fabric; with the idea of being able to run a search on our site to look for other fabrics with the same (or a close) color on it.
I have seen similar functionality on other sites, but I suspect that it's done by using a color picker on the fabric images, and those are not necessarily exactly the same as the fabric itself. It would be safer (though labor intensive) to identify the important colors by actually looking at the fabric.