Traité théorique et pratique de l'impression des tissus
A French treatise on textile printing by J. Persoz, published in Paris in 1846 by Victor Masson, written for dyers and calico printers. Its plates are small swatch samples of striped and checked cloth, many showing colour and pattern combinations for printed fabric. A designer could take from them the stripe widths, colour pairings such as dark green against cream or ochre against black, and the simple repeat structures of mid-nineteenth-century cotton design.
