Source for colored Plexiglas sought

Marie-Chantale Poisson <mcp [at] mcpconservation__com> writes

>We are looking for a distributor of coloured Plexiglas that can
>provide small quantities and ideally located in North America. ...

Rohm and Haas used to sell (or perhaps, give away) sample sets of
Plexiglas (a registered trademark) in 2 1/2 inch squares.  We had a
bunch of these at the Freer Gallery when I worked there.  They
proved useful not only for selecting the right color, opacity, etc.
for a project but also for fabricating small apparatus in decorative
bright colors.  I think the easiest thing to do is to look up
plastics in the yellow pages and then go to your biggest local
distributor of plexiglass and ask for samples. In looking on the
web, I found both Plexiglass(r) and plexiglass, but the first source
listed

    US Plastic Corp.
    <URL:http://ecommercialplastics.com>

showed some of these small samples of plexiglass as the first
picture on their website, so I think they're still available.


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