Nuances saison = Fashionable shades
A trade sample book of dyed fabric swatches issued in 1890 by the Frankfurt firm Leopold Cassella & Co., showing fashionable shades for dyers and textile buyers in French and English. The pictures are rows of cut cloth tabs in black, navy, violet, olive gold, brown and grey, each with a slanted edge, plus the firm's Frankfurt trade-mark crest. A designer could take from them a set of dark and muted fabric colour names and the tidy grid of swatch cards.
