How to buy dyestuffs
A 1913 trade booklet published in New York by the Cassella Color Company, aimed at buyers and purchasing staff who ordered dyes and dyeing materials. The pictures show an open ledger of dye purchase records, a shelf of dyestuffs reference volumes, a laboratory cabinet of glass sample bottles, and a fan of pigment sample cards. A designer could take from them the tidy, catalogue-style layout of tabulated records and product cards, and the stacked bottle and swatch arrangements for organising colour information.
