this absolutely is killing me!!!! My green quilt that i just finished has some batiks in it and the backing is batik.
This past week at quilting, we actually had a conversation about black. We are working on a grandma's flower garden that has black centers and the centers all seem to be dry-rotted.
One of the ladies mentioned she had made a quilt w/ black in it and the solid black had deteriorated relatively quickly. I have a quilt in my head for my sister and it was going to have black tone on tone. Now i'm having 2nd thoughts because I surely don't want the black to deteriorate.