Colour-matching on textiles : a manual intended for the use of dyers, calico printers, and textile colour chemists, containing coloured frontispiece, twenty-nine illustrations, and fourteen dyed patterns in appendix (1901)
Paterson, David · London : Scott, Greenwood · leaf 71
there is reflected to the eye, along with the coloured light, alarge proportion of unchanged white light from the surfaceof the fibres of the material, and this white light, combiningwith the coloured light, gives an impoverished and poorerlook to the colours. A simple example of this may be… … Fig. 19.—Diagram illustrating overhand or transmitted light method ofexamining dyed materials. (A) Eye of observer. (B) Direction of light. on the surface, the green looks dull and dead in comparisonto its transmitted light colour. The surface of the leaf reflects much white light, whichimpairs the…
Color in the textile industries · Dyes and dyeing
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