About Glanz FabricsGlanz Fabrics is a Mumbai-based fabric house serving fashion designers, brands and discerning retail customers. We work across a wide range of fabrics, fibres, constructions and surface techniques, with a robust focus on sourcing unique and high-quality textiles from India and international markets.
We are looking for a Freelance Textile Colour Consultant & Colourist with an exceptional eye for colour to help us build and curate colour palettes for our range of dyeable fabrics.
This is a part time, in office freelance role in Mumbai, with the potential to develop into a long-term association.
The RoleYou will be responsible for helping Glanz develop the right colour direction for our dyeable fabric collection.
This is a highly creative role for someone who can look at a fabric and immediately understand which colours will make it look beautiful, relevant, premium and commercially desirable.
You will work closely with our procurement and product development team to develop colour palettes, colourways and dyeing directions across different fabrics and fibres.
Key Responsibilities• Develop colour palettes for Glanz's dyeable fabric collections.
• Recommend colours based on the fabric, fibre, construction, texture, finish and end use.
• Develop seasonal and evergreen colour stories for different fabric categories.
• Identify missing or commercially relevant colours within our existing collection.
• Recommend colours that feel contemporary, sophisticated and premium.
• Create colourways and coordinated colour combinations across fabrics.
• Work with Pantone references, particularly Pantone Fashion, Home + Interiors / TCX, where appropriate.
• Review and guide colour development through lab dips and physical fabric samples.
• Evaluate how colours behave differently across fibres and fabric constructions.
• Communicate colour directions and specifications clearly to suppliers and dyeing partners.
• Research fashion and textile colour trends and translate t