Coloraid lives! I have black paper!
Jun. 9th, 2005 04:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nancylebovA while ago, I'd been told at Pearl, my local art supply store, that Coloraid had gone out of business. The information seemed substantiated by a sale on their remaining stock of Coloraid paper.
This is more serious than it sounds--Coloraid makes the only black paper I know of that's really good for calligraphy. Those of you who are hooked on a particular art supply know what it's like to have the supply get cut off.
I did much angsting and complaining and trying out Stygian Black Mi Tiente paper and black origami paper, neither of which worked all that well, and trying to figure out a policy for the use of my smallish remaining stash of black Coloraid.
I did find Paperjade, an evilly tempting origami paper website. It loads quickly, then shows you what's on sale, what's most popular, what sold most recently, and what people who bought what you just ordered also bought, without cluttering up the screen the way amazon does. And they taped a lollipop to the order list for my first order.
So I went to ask.metafilter (the place to ask those questions not easily answered by google), and a sensible person checked and found that Coloraid was still running their website and was presumably still in business.
My black paper (and some dark brown, suitable for custom buttons about chocolate) arrived today. I feel much better.
I'd feel even better than that if I had an alternate source of black paper, but at least my favorite pusher is still on the corner.
This is more serious than it sounds--Coloraid makes the only black paper I know of that's really good for calligraphy. Those of you who are hooked on a particular art supply know what it's like to have the supply get cut off.
I did much angsting and complaining and trying out Stygian Black Mi Tiente paper and black origami paper, neither of which worked all that well, and trying to figure out a policy for the use of my smallish remaining stash of black Coloraid.
I did find Paperjade, an evilly tempting origami paper website. It loads quickly, then shows you what's on sale, what's most popular, what sold most recently, and what people who bought what you just ordered also bought, without cluttering up the screen the way amazon does. And they taped a lollipop to the order list for my first order.
So I went to ask.metafilter (the place to ask those questions not easily answered by google), and a sensible person checked and found that Coloraid was still running their website and was presumably still in business.
My black paper (and some dark brown, suitable for custom buttons about chocolate) arrived today. I feel much better.
I'd feel even better than that if I had an alternate source of black paper, but at least my favorite pusher is still on the corner.
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Date: 2005-06-09 09:26 pm (UTC)My guess is that Pearl's distributor dropped coloraid, (they're big enough that they may be their own distributor), and they interpreted this as "they went out of business".
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Date: 2005-06-09 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-09 11:15 pm (UTC)Coloraid-Out of Business?
Date: 2005-11-05 04:27 pm (UTC)I own a retail art supply store, and have a web page, www.pjartco.com. I sell various Coloraid packs to students, and special order the sheets for customers. Back in late 2004, Coloraid closed down their NY City office, and moved all operations to their upstate NY site. However, they didn't notify any of their customers. None of us new that they had an upstate site. I order from Coloraid together with another art supply store. The owner of that store also thought that Coloraid was out of business, until I found their site on the web, and called the company to confirm that they were open. It took them months to move their paper cutting equipment upstate, so the packs were unavailble. Coloraid was sold in the early 2000's, and the company has never been the same. They take months to fill Coloraid pack orders, and are difficult to deal with. Many art suppliers and schools (the primary user of Coloraid packs), have decided that the company is too difficult to deal with.