The laws of contrast of colour : and their application to the arts of painting, decoration of buildings, mosaic work, tapestry and carpet weaving, calico printing, dress, paper staining, printing, military clothing, illumination, landscape and flower gardening, &c.
Chevreul's 1868 treatise on colour contrast, published in London and New York by George Routledge and Sons, was written by a French chemist for painters, decorators, weavers and printers. Its numbered plates set coloured grounds side by side with striped, starred, squared and garlanded motifs, so a designer can see how a single hue shifts against its neighbours in pattern.
