Immedial colours on piece-goods
A trade sample book of 1900 published in New York by the Cassella Color Company, showing dye swatches for textile manufacturers and dyers. Its pages are rows of numbered colour chips arranged in two columns, each with a printed sample number and a caption naming the shade set. A designer could draw on its tidy grid of named browns, golds, maroons and near-blacks as a reference for muted, earthy textile palettes.
