Essai sur l'art de la teinture
A French treatise on dyeing, written by Henrik Teofilus Scheffer with notes by Torbern Bergman, published in Paris in 1787 by Buisson for craftsmen and chemists working with colours. Its four small pictures are woodcut floral ornaments: a bunch of flowers with berries, a sprig of blossoms with leaves, a posy of roses, and a horizontal scrolled border strip with flowers. A designer could take from them simple botanical motifs and compact border devices suited to vintage labels, headpieces, and pattern edges.
