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THE SCIENCE OF COLOUR MIXING. A Manual in- 



tended for the use of Dyers, Calico Printers and Colour Chemists. By 

 DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S. Forty-one Illustrations, Five Coloured Plates, 

 and Four Plates showing Eleven Dyed Specimens of Fabrics. 132 



pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d. ; India and Colonies, 8s. ; Other 

 Countries, 8s. 6d. ; strictly net. 



Contents. 



Chapters I., Colour a Sensation; Colours of Illuminated Bodies; Colours of Opaque and 

 Transparent Bodies; Surface Colour. II., Analysis of Light; Spectrum; Homogeneous 

 Colours; Ready Method of Obtaining a Spectrum. III., Examination of Solar Spectrum; 

 The Spectroscope and Its Construction ; Colourists' Use of the Spectroscope. IV.. Colour by 

 Absorption ; Solutions and Dyed Fabrics ; Dichroic Coloured Fabrics in Gaslight. V., Colour 

 Primaries of the Scientist versus the Dyer and Artist ; Colour Mixing by Rotation and Lye 

 Dyeing; Hue, Purity, Brightness; Tints; Shades, Scales, Tones, Sad and Sombre Colours. 

 VI., Colour Mixing ; Pure and Impure Greens, Orange and Violets ; Large Variety of Shades 

 from few Colours; Consideration of the Practical Primaries: Red, Yellow and Blue. VII.,. 

 Secondary Colours; Nomenclature of Violet and Purple Group; Tints and Shades of Violet; 

 Changes in Artificial Light. VIII., Tertiary Shades ; Broken Hues; Absorption Spectra of 

 Tertiary Shades. Appendix : Four Plates with Dyed Specimens Illustrating Text. Index. 



Press Opinions. 



" The work has evidently been prepared with great care." Halifax Courier. 



"The volume, which is clearly and popularly written, should prove of the utmost service to 

 all who are concerned with the practical use of colours, whether as dyers or painters." 

 Scotsman. 



" We have no hesitation in advising the purchase of the present volume by dyers and calico- 

 printers, as containing a mass of most useful information at a nominal price." Irish Textile 

 Journal. 



"Mr. Paterson's work . . . will be found exceedingly helpful, not only to the practical 

 colourist, but also to students in our textile colleges, by forming a useful complement to 

 their class lectures." Wakefield Express. 



"... The author is a dyer, and in his concluding chapters keeps well before him the 

 special wants and requirements of dyers. He writes pleasantly and lucidly, and there is no 

 difficulty in following him, although here and there a lapse into ambiguousness occurs." 

 Textile Mercury. 



COLOUR MATCHING ON TEXTILES. A Manual in- 

 tended for the use of Students of Colour Chemistry, Dyeing and 

 Textile Printing. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S. Coloured Frontis- 

 piece. Twenty-nine Illustrations and Fourteen Specimens of Dyed 

 Fabrics Illustrating Text. Demy 8vo. 132 pp. 1901. Price 7s. 6d. ; 

 India and Colonies, 8s. ; Other Countries, 8s. 6d. ; strictly net. 



Contents. 



Chapters I., Colour Vision and Structure of the Eye Perception of Colour Primary 

 and Complementary Colour Sensations. II., Daylight for Colour Matching Selection of a 

 Good Pure Light Diffused Daylight, Direct Sunlight, Blue Skylight, Variability of Daylight, 

 etc., etc. III., Matching of Hues Purity and Luminosity of Colours Matching Bright Hues 

 Aid of Tinted Films Matching Difficulties Arising from Contrast. IV., Examination of 

 Colours by Reflected and Transmitted Lights Effect of Lustre and Transparency of Fibres 

 in Colour Matching. V,, Matching of Colours on Velvet Pile Optical Properties of Dye- 

 stuffs, Dichroism. Fluorescence. VI., Use of Tinted Mediums Orange Film Defects of the 

 EyeYellowing of the Lens Colour Blindness, etc. VII., Matching of Dyed Silk Trimmings 

 and Linings and Bindings Its Difficulties Behaviour of Shades in Artificial Light Colour 

 Matching of Old Fabrics, etc. VIII., Examination of Dyed Colours under the Artificial Lights 

 Electric Arc, Magnesium and Dufton, Gardner Lights, Welsbach, Acetylene, etc. Testing 

 Qualities of an Illuminant. IX., Influence of the Absorption Spectrum in Changes of Hue 

 under the Artificial Lights Study of the Causes of Abnormal Modifications of Hue, etc. 



Press Opinions. 



"It should form a part of the library of every dyer and colourist in the United Kingdom 

 and indeed of every English-speaking country." Dyer and Calico Printer. 



"We recommend it to every one who has anything to do with colour matching, even to 

 merchants dealing in colouring goods." Indian Textile Journal. 



Reissue of 

 THE ART OF DYEING WOOL, SILK AND COTTON. 



Translated from the French of M. HELLOT, M. MACQUER and M. LE 

 PILEUR D'ApLiGNY. First Published in English in 1789. Six Plates. 

 Demy 8vo. 446 pp. 1901. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d. ;. 

 Other Countries, 6s. ; strictly net. 



