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Das Färben der Baumwolle und verwandter Fasern mit den Farbstoffen

Leopold Cassella & Co., author, Leopold Cassella & Co · 1902 · Frankfurt : L. Casella · 9 pictures

A German dye-sample booklet from 1902, issued by the Frankfurt firm Leopold Cassella & Co. for textile dyers working with cotton and related fibres. Its pictures are swatches of dyed cloth, each labelled with a dye name and strength in percent, shown as flat rectangles of colour in blue, black, orange and red. A designer could take from them the way a single dye shifts in depth and tone across concentrations, and the diagonal twill weave visible in the fabric.

Dyes and dyeing

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