Färbungen auf mercerisiertem und gewöhnlichem Baumwollgarn und Viscoseseide = Shades on mercerised cotton, ordinary cotton and viscose silk = Teintures sur coton mercerisé et ordinaire et soie viscose
A trade sample book of dyed cotton and viscose silk yarn issued in 1890 by the Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedrich Bayer & Co. at Leverkusen near Cologne, aimed at textile dyers and buyers. Its plates are grids of numbered swatches, each a dyed yarn strip in a single shade, arranged by number so a designer can compare colour families side by side; the lion-and-globe device at the foot of one page is the company's printer's mark.
