Excerpt from Colour-Matching on Textiles: A Manual Intended for the Use of Dyers, Calico Printers, and Textile Colour Chemists; Containing Coloured Frontispiece, Twenty-Nine Illustrations, and Fourteen Dyed Patterns in Appendix Although a valuable and extensive literature is already devoted to the textile arts, no book has yet appeared on the important subject Of the colour-matching of dyed textiles. The subject is a comprehensive one, comprising as it does the study of colour-perception, the qualities of day light, the optical properties Of the fibres and dyestuffs employed, and also the influences of artificial illumination on colour appearances. This little manual attempts, as far as possible, to systematise and elucidate the many perplexing phenomena that come before the dyer and colour chemist in the course of their everyday work. How far this attempt succeeds lies With the reader himself to judge; but I hope it may prove a genuine help to the practical man as well as to the student. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.