🎨 Colors with soul - the world of Tentakulum Painters Threads
Welcome to the world of Tentakulum Painters Threads colors – created using a very special dyeing technique developed exclusively at the House of Textile Arts.
Our dye baths are famous for their vibrant variety – with surprising nuances and subtle variations.
Each thread, each fabric is dyed individually, creating a new, unique play of colors with each batch.
Embroidered areas do not show repeating patterns, but a continuous, gentle melange – this makes each project truly unique.
Our 40 harmoniously coordinated colors open up enormous creative freedom.
🖼️ Please note: Due to our special hand-coloring and the different color representations on screens, there may be deviations between the photo and the original color.
Our color charts are for general orientation and show the basic tones contained in each color.
🔍 You can find more insights into our coloring secrets at Painters Secrets.
📥 You can download the color cards directly here – for a precise overview of the entire color palette.
Painters Glory
For more information about the life and work of the artists,
who inspired our color compositions,
please click on the name.
Below you will find the color number of the Tentakulum Painters threads.
Please note: the colors shown are snapshots! (see above)
101 Macke
102 Kandinsky
103 Clover
104 ClaudeM
105 Gauguin
106 Klimt
107 VanGogh
108 Rousseau
109 Picasso
110 Chagall
111 Frida
112 Georgia
113 Hopper
114 Lawrence
115 GrandmaMoses
116 Renoir
117 Niki
118 MaryC
119 Gabriele
120 Boucher
121 Cezanne
122 Marianne
123 Wilhelmina
124 Turner
125 Matisse
126 Kirchner
127 Waterhouse
128 Marc
129 Frederick
130 IngeMeta
This is the original picture that inspired me to create the color “IngeMeta”.
🎨 The story behind color 130: Inge Meta
You may be wondering:
Who is Inge Meta…?
(…color 130, no link, but lots of meaning.)
I would like to tell you the moving story behind this name – because it is closely linked to my own life.
🌱 A “life artist”
Inge Meta was not a famous artist, but an artist of life.
A person who found the courage to go on under difficult circumstances – and gave light and warmth to many others in the process.
Inge Meta was my mother.
And she found her way through the pain with the help of watercolor painting after my father died very suddenly and much too early.
Becoming a widow at 60 is perhaps not unusual – but she was left with two children at home and a son at university.
My sister and I lived far away, tied to our jobs, and could only accompany her from a distance.
And yet my parents had only just earned a little bit of wealth for the first time in their lives.
And then came the break.
Life is not always easy to understand.
🎨 From darkness to light
My mother began to paint.
At first she used dark colors – black, dark red, gray.
But with each painting, her spirit returned a little bit.
The colors became brighter, more vibrant, bolder.
Each of her five children was allowed to choose a painting.
I chose one that looked like a door to me.
A door into a world full of light and color.
And I knew:
I wanted to capture these colors in a thread .
🧪 Two years of color, feeling & experimentation
That was easier said than done.
There were so many tones in my mother’s picture – even those that, according to the textbook, “should not be mixed”.
So it took me almost two years to compose the color tone in such a way that it reminded me of this picture.
For my mother’s 85th birthday – in 2015 – I gave her “her” color:
Inge Meta, color 130.
With a small certificate that captured the moment.
And the wish that her courage to face life will spread to many who work with this color.
And yes – it works.
Inge Meta is one of our best-selling colors today.
Although (or perhaps because) it is also the most unreliable:
Eight colors dance together in this mixture – each time a little differently.
Just like in real life.
🌸 And then…
In September 2019, my mother suddenly passed into another world.
But her colors have remained.
And many of those who embroider, dye and design with “Inge Meta” still feel something of it:
joie de vivre, depth, changeability, hope.
Just as she was.
To ensure that everything was correct, we also issued Inge Meta with a certificate, which she proudly displayed for all to see.
Painters Pastels
🌸 The delicate side of color – our pastel shades
In 2015, inspired by numerous requests from our customers, we began to develop a new world of color:
soft pastel shades to complement our vibrant Painters Glory colors.
The original idea was to create a small, reduced palette.
But as is so often the case with our dyeing technique, it quickly became clear that it wasn’t that simple.
Because not all pastels are the same – and we wanted to create shades that were clearly different from conventional hand-dyed pastel yarns.
🎨 Delicate – but not ordinary
Our aim was to create soft tones with character:
pastel nuances that retain clarity and depth instead of blurring into randomness.
The result is impressive – and has also been received with great enthusiasm by our customers.
Many say:
“When you work with Glorys and Pastels, you don’t really need anything else.“
And of course we are delighted with this trust.
🌿 Names that evoke images
Our pastels have names that tell stories – of landscapes, plants, cities, animals.
Sometimes inspired by a place, sometimes by a feeling.
Because, as with all Painters Threads colors, intuition and emotion flow into every nuance.
P001 Iceland
P002 Aruba
P003 Riesling
P004 Pomelo
P005 Suricata
P006 Peony
P007 Agave
P008 Koala
P009 Longan
P010 Syringa