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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
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rounds ; and third, whenworked in textures composed of dark yarns. Yellow isdiffused and diminished in conspicuity on the first, islocalized and intensified on the last, whereas it is onlymodified in a small degree when associated with shades of amedium depth. 28. Province of Yellow in Woven Fabrics.—Pure yellowis but sparingly used in textile designing. In tweeds andworsteds it is combined, to a limited extent, with othershades in the construction of fancy twists. Thus it is theprincipal colour in the following two- and three-ply yarns:black and yellow; blue and yellow; indigo blue and yellow;dark grey and yellow ; black, purple, and yellow; black,mid grey, and yellow ; and black, red, and yellow. Whenused in this form it frequently adds lustre and fresh-ness to an otherwise sombre style. It possibly gives thebest results in tweeds, where the fibrous nature of the tex-ture helps to minimize its excessive brightness. Yellow isalso applied as a self-coloured yarn to certain styles of
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PLATE V. . ATTRIBUTES OF COLOURS. 47 check patterns for woollen travelling modes, shawls, andthin worsted dress stuffs. An example of a plaid patternof this description is given on Plate V. The arrangement of threads in both warp and weft forsuch a check or plaid, when applied to dress materials, isas appended :— 8 threads of green, 16 )> black, 16 » blue, 4 5> black, 16 >> blue, 16 >> black, 16 5> green, 4 >> yellow, 16 )> green, 16 J> black, 16 >J green, 4 >> yellow, 8 >> green. If the same scheme of shades were utilized in the pro-duction of Scotch modes or shawls, the checks wouldrequire to be considerably enlarged. The part played by the yellow yarns should be speciallynoticed. But for these threads the pattern would be flat andunattractive. Their erasure would cause the squares ofgreen to appear dull and heavy. They enliven and brightenthe whole plaid. Here, moreover, yellow has been skilfullyapplied. Such a series of shades as

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