Textile Colour Mixing; A Manual Intended for the Use of Dyers, Calico Printers, and Colour Chemists

Paterson, David, Aberdeen University Press · 1915 · Scott, Greenwood · 10 pictures

A 1915 technical manual by David Paterson, published in London by Scott, Greenwood for dyers, calico printers and colour chemists. Plates mount actual dyed cloth swatches — rubine, acid green, citrine, rich brown — labelled with recipes and percentages, plus diagrams of overlapping tinted fans showing dichroism; useful for period dye palettes, swatch-on-page layouts and colour-mixing charts.

Colors · Dye and dyeing · Spectrum analysis · Light absorption · Paterson, David · Color -- Study and teaching

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