Contents.
Colour a Sensation; Colours of Illuminated Bodies; Colours of Opaque and Transparent Bodies; Surface Colour -- Analysis of Light; Spectrum; Homogeneous Colours; Ready Method of Obtaining a Spectrum -- Examination of Solar Spectrum; The Spectroscope and Its Construction; Colourists' Use of the Spectroscope -- Colour by Absorption: Solutions and Dyed Fabrics; Dichroic Coloured Fabrics in Gaslight -- 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 -- 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 -- Secondary Colours; Nomenclature of Violet and Purple Group; Tints and Shades of Violet; Changes in Artificial Light -- Tertiary Shades; Broken Hues; Absorption Spectra of Tertiary Shades -- Appendix: Four Plates with Dyed Specimens Illustrating Text -- Index.
DYERS' MATERIALS: An Introduction to the Examination, Evaluation and Application of the most important Substances used in Dyeing, Printing, Bleaching and Finishing. By Paul Heerman, Ph.D. Translated from the German by A. C. Wright, M.A. (Oxon.), B.Sc. (Lond.). Twenty-four Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 150 pp. Price 5s. net. (Post free, 5s. 4d. home; 5s. 6d. abroad.)
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. Demy 8vo. 132 pp. Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free, 7s. 10d. home; 8s. abroad.)
Contents.
Colour Vision and Structure of the Eye -- Perception of Colour -- Primary and Complementary Colour Sensations -- Daylight for Colour Matching -- Selection of a Good Pure Light -- Diffused Daylight, Direct Sunlight, Blue Skylight, Variability of Daylight, etc., etc. -- Matching of Hues -- Purity and Luminosity of Colours -- Matching Bright Hues -- Aid of Tinted Films -- Matching Difficulties Arising from Contrast -- Examination of Colours by Reflected and Transmitted Lights -- Effect of Lustre and Transparency of Fibres in Colour Matching -- Matching of Colours on Velvet Pile -- Optical Properties of Dye-stuffs, Dichroism, Fluorescence -- Use of Tinted Mediums -- Orange Film -- Defects of the Eye -- Yellowing of the Lens -- Colour Blindness, etc. -- Matching of Dyed Silk Trimmings and Linings and Bindings -- Its Difficulties -- Behaviour of Shades in Artificial Light -- Colour Matching of Old Fabrics, etc. -- Examination of Dyed Colours under the Artificial Lights -- Electric Arc, Magnesium and Dufton, Gardner Lights, Welsbach, Acetylene, etc. -- Testing Qualities of an Illuminant -- Influence of the Absorption Spectrum in Changes of Hue under the Artificial Lights -- Study of the Causes of Abnormal Modifications of Hue, etc.
COLOUR: A HANDBOOK OF THE THEORY OF COLOUR. By George H. Hurst, F.C.S. With Ten Coloured Plates and Seventy-two Illustrations. 160 pp. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free, 7s. 10d. home; 8s. abroad.)
Contents.
Colour and Its Production -- Cause of Colour in Coloured Bodies -- Colour Phenomena and Theories -- The Physiology of Light -- Contrast -- Colour in Decoration and Design -- Measurement of Colour.
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