Identifier: gri_c00033125001412929 (find matches)
Title: Colour in woven design
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Beaumont, Roberts, 1862-1924
Subjects: Color in the textile industries Textile design
Publisher: London : Whittaker & Co. New York : D. Van Nostrand
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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tre and freshness, and henceis one of the most appropriate colours for imparting bright-ness of aspect, or for giving to any combination of shades,lacking these important qualities, a rich and bloomingappearance. Shades of orange (Nos. 7, 8, and 9, Plate VI.) are whatmay be designated brownish olives, possessing warmer attri-butes than the shades derived from yellow, but wantingthat strength and richness of hue characterizing the russetbrowns resulting from an amalgamation of red with black.As ground colours they are of extensive utility to the tex-tile colourist. With shades of green they form perfectcomplementary combinations, as the following exampleswill illustrate :— I. Dark brownish olive (No. 7) with dark green (No. 1, Plate VI.). II. Mid brownish olive (No. 8) with shaded green (No. 2, Plate VI.). in. Light brownish olive (No. 9) with mid green (No. 3, Plate VI.). Where these pairs of shades are used, whatever the formof the pattern, mellow colouring must ensue. These shades
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