Die Wollfarbstoffe des Jahres 1912 = Wool colours 1912 = Les colorants pour laine de l'année 1912
A 1912 dye sample booklet published in New York by the Bayer Company, printed in German, English and French, and aimed at wool dyers and textile trades. Its pages show skeins of wool dyed in bow-shaped and flower-shaped swatches, each labelled with a colour name and chemical recipe percentages. A designer could take from it the dense blues, browns and blacks of early synthetic wool dyes, and the tidy grid of swatches and numbers as a model for a colour chart layout.
