Print styles on shoddy material
A 1900 dye-sample book published in New York by the Cassella Color Company, documenting how shoddy wool cloth takes up dyes by the one-bath method, with color swatches for trade use. The plates are rows of rectangular fabric patches, mostly black and near-black, with a few dark red and blue-black tones, each labelled with a printed number and the Leopold Cassella & Co. Frankfort imprint. A designer might take from them the dense, matte, low-sheen texture of dyed wool and the stacked-swatch layout used to compare shades.
