Nuances mode sur tissus de confection pour dames et pour hommes
A French-language sample book of fabric colour swatches issued by Leopold Cassella & Co. of Frankfurt am Main in 1890, aimed at dyers and clothing makers for ready-made dresses and menswear. The pictures are rectangular blocks of solid black and dense dark weave textures, printed as plain tiles on cream card, with no figures or scenery. A designer might take from them the close-set woven and twill surface patterns and the way a single dark dye reads across different cloth structures.
