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, and, as far as we can judge, should be very useful to the dyer and colourist."—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.
"To the practical colourist, and also to technical students, Mr. Paterson's new work will be very welcome. We are often asked to recommend books on different subjects, and 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 not only clearly deals with the theory of colour, but supplies lucid directions for the practical application of the theory. His 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. There are several exquisitely coloured plates and a large number of other illustrations of theory and practice in colour blending, and also a series of plates with specimens of dyed fabrics attached, in explication of the author's views."—Wakefield Express.
"Mr. Paterson has little to say upon the experimental aspect or on its æsthetics, but much upon the theory of colour, especially as it bears upon the question—an all-important one to dyers, calico printers and artists, who have to produce such a variety of shades and tints—of the admixture of one colour upon another.... 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. The book is well printed, generously supplied with coloured plates, very nicely if not brightly got up; and the dyed patterns at the end enhance the value of the book to the dyer."—Textile Mercury.
"For some time the proprietors of The Oil and Colourman's Journal have been engaged in the publication of a series of practical handbooks intended for the use of those interested in certain branches of technology, and the present volume is the latest addition to their list. The feature which the works have in common—and it is an all-important one in treatises of this sort—is their eminently practical character. The primary aim of the publishers is to provide scientific text-books which will be helpful to those who are either actively engaged in the practice of the arts in question, or who are studying with that immediate end in view.... Mr. Paterson speaks with that assured knowledge of an expert, and in the present volume, as in that which he has already contributed to the same series, he sets forth the true foundation of the art of colouring in a manner at once comprehensive and judicious.... For dyers, calico printers and colourists in general, whose desire it is to work with accuracy in their respective branches, the treatise will prove an invaluable guide-book, provided the principles and methods it describes are studied with intelligence and care. To this end, every encouragement has been given that well-chosen examples, carefully executed plates and diagrams, and an exhaustive index can supply."—Glasgow Herald.
COLOUR MATCHING ON TEXTILES. A Manual intended for the use of Students of Colour Chemistry, Dyeing and Textile Printing. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S. Coloured Frontispiece. 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 Eye—Yellowing 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.
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.
Contents.
Part I., The Art of Dyeing Wool and Woollen Cloth, Stuffs, Yarn, Worsted, etc.: Introduction.—Chapters I., Of the Vessels and Utensils used in Dyeing.—II., Of the Fixed and Fugitive, commonly called Great and Little Dye.—III., Of Colours in Grain. Dyeing Wool: IV., Of Blue.—V., Of the Pastel Vat—Directions for the Proper Management of the Vat—Indications when the Vat has Suffered by too much or too little Lime, the two extremes which ought carefully to be avoided—The Preparations of Indigo for the Pastel Vat.—VI., Of the Woad Vat.—VII., Of the Indigo Vat.—VIII., Of the Cold Indigo Vat with Urine—A Hot Indigo Vat with Urine—To Reheat a Urine Vat.—IX., A Cold Indigo Vat without Urine. —X., Of the Method of Dyeing Blue.—XI., Of Red.—XII., Of Scarlet in Grain, or Venetian Scarlet.—XIII., Of Fire Scarlet.—XIV., Of Crimson.—XV., Of Gum Lac Scarlet.—XVI., Of the Coccus polonicus, a Colouring Insect.—XVII., Of Madder Red.—XVIII., Of Yellow.—XIX., Of Brown or Fawn Colour.—XX., Of Black.—XXI., Of the Colours obtained from a Mixture of Blue and Red.—XXII., Of the Mixture of Blue and Yellow.—XXIII., Of the Mixture of Blue and Fawn Colour.—XXIV., Of the Mixture of Blue and Black.—XXV., Of the Mixture of Red and Yellow.—XXVI., Of the Mixture of Red and Fawn.—XXVII., Of the Mixture of Red and Black.—XXVIII., Of the Mixture of Yellow and Fawn Colours.—XXIX., Of the Mixture of Yellow and Black.—XXX., Of the Mixture of Fawn Colour and Black.—XXXI., Of the Principal Mixtures of the Primitive Colours by Three and Three.—XXXII., The Method of Blending Wool of Different Colours for mixed Cloth or Stuffs.—XXXIII., The Method of Preparing Felts for Trial.—XXXIV., The Method of Dyeing Woollens False Colours.—XXXV., Of Flock or Goats' Hair.—XXXVI., Of Archil, and the Method of Using It.—XXXVII., Of Logwood.—XXXVIII., Of Brazil Wood.—XXXIX., Of Fustic—XL., Roucou.—XLI., Of French Berries. —XLII., Of Turmeric.—XLIII., Instructions for the Proof Liquor for Wool and Woollen Stuffs.