3D colored meshes are becoming popular in many computer graphics applications. However, they may contain many color defects due to the scanning process. We present an exemplar-based framework for color completion in 3D colored meshes, as an adaptation of the approach of Criminisi et al. proposed for images [5]. To exploit the self similarity of the vertices, a spiral patch is defined to represent the local neighborhood of vertices, as well as how to compare two spiral patches. A dedicated priority term is used to define the filling order, so that patches close to the inpainting boundary with specific continuity properties are inpainted first. The proposed approach is tested on several meshes for different correction tasks and shows good performances in terms of visual reconstruction of the inpainted areas.