Originally Posted by gale
Never realized that there's so much variation in black!
Next time you're in a relatively well-stocked LQS, take a look at the black solids.
Even if they're top of the line fabrics- Moda, Kaufman, P&B - when you put them next to each other, what looked like perfectly acceptable black solid before will now appear with a red or blue or green tint.
My understanding of this, from something I read back when the MM fabric came out, is that many of the black solids are produced by using a mish-mash of remaining dyes, and throwing black in to them so they darken up to a "black" solid.
But those underlying other colors still have an effect on the final product.
The MM Jet Solid Black was one of the first made with ONLY dark black dyes.
How many times have you bought black fabric, used it up, and then bought more.....and it wasn't the same color?
I've bought and used huge yardage cuts of this fabric from different sources and never had the equivalent of dye lot mismatch problem.
I found the Moda frayed a lot. A LOT.
Keepsake Quilting's Amish black is an RJR fabric - which, when I last saw in a store (not Keepsake) was not black black.
When I fabric shop, I always have a square of the MM Jet with me to compare. ;-)
I haven't tried the Maywood black yet. Thanks for mentioning it.
NAYY / YMMV.
;-)