Die Teerfarbstoffe der Farbwerke vorm. Meister Lucius & Brüning, Hoechst a.M. auf dem Gebiete der Wollfärberei
A 1908 German dye-maker's sample book from Farbwerke vorm. Meister Lucius & Brüning of Höchst am Main, self-published for wool dyers and textile trade customers. Each plate is a mounted tipped-in swatch of wool dyed with a coal-tar colour, shown on a cream card with a paper strip holding it in place. A designer could take from these the saturated, flat colour fields of early synthetic dyes, shown as dense fibre textures in black, navy, brown and blue.
