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The laws of contrast of colour : $b and their application to the arts of painting, decoration of buildings, mosaic work, tapestry and carpet weaving, calico printing, dress, paper staining, printing, military clothing, illumination, landscape, and flower gardening, &c.Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène)

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The laws of contrast of colour : $b and their application to the arts of painting, decoration of buildings, mosaic work, tapestry and carpet weaving, calico printing, dress, paper staining, printing, military clothing, illumination, landscape, and flower gardening, &c.

Name: The laws of contrast of colour : $b and their application to the arts of painting, decoration of buildings, mosaic work, tapestry and carpet weaving, calico printing, dress, paper staining, printing, military clothing, illumination, landscape, and flower gardening, &c.
Author: Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène)

Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène)

Color

dissimulating a tint of the, _ib._
    Composition, predominance of a certain colour in, 100;
      distribution of colours in, 101.
    Compound colours, 26, 27, 28.
    CONTRAST of COLOURS, 1, 4, 8;
      law and formulæ of, 8, 9, 10, 29 _et seq._;
      simultaneous and successive, 29, 87;
      mixed, 29-33, 88;
      law of, 34;
      harmonies of, 48, 217;
      lectures on, at the Gobelins, 80;
      uses of the law of, 89 _et seq._;
      principles of, 91;
      results of, 93;
      applications of the law of, 95 _et seq._;
      principles of in connexion with the production of tapestry, 109;
      law of demonstrated in calico-printing, 119-121;
      advantages of with regard to clothing, 165;
      harmonies of in gardening, 182, 183, 184;
      in the arrangement of plants and flowers, 194;
      effect of upon the browns and lights of wool and silk employed
          in tapestry and carpets, 208.
    Cornices for the interior of a house, 157.

                              D.
    Daylight, modifications produced by the, 73.
    Definitions of terms of art, 34.
    Diagrams, chromatic, 36-46.
    Distribution of colours in a composition, 100, 101.
    Draperies of women as associated with complexion, 169-171;
      rose-red, _ib._;
      delicate green, yellow, violet, and blue, 170;
      orange, white, and black, 171;
      results applicable to portrait painting, 178.
    Dress of women, assortment of colours in the, 177.

                              E.
    Egyptians, various colours used by the, 138.
    Eye, different states of the, in seeing colours, 200, 201, 202.

                              F.
    Females, colours of their clothing, 167;
      the dress assorting with fair skins, _ib._;
      colours of the hair and head-dress of, 168;
      of the complexion and the contiguous drapery, 169.
    Figures, coloured, in paper-hangings, 121-3.
    Flat tints, painting on the system of, 69, 81, 82, 217;
      for ornamenting boxes, tables, screens, &c., 218.
    Flowers, Coloured, in paper-hangings, 121;
      arrangement of according to their colours, 180;
      assortments of, when the plants are apart, 181;
      when they are indiscriminately mixed, 182;
      assortments of, as to harmonies of contrast and analogy, 182, 183;
      small masses of designated a bed, 187;
      law of contrasts in the arrangement of, 194.
    Foliage of ligneous plants, assortment of according
      to their colour, 184.
    Forest, definition of a, 186.
    Form, its influence in the effect of contrast of two colours, 213.
    Formulæ which represent the law of simultaneous contrast of colours, 8.
    French gardening, 191.
    Furniture, tapestries for, 220.

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The laws of contrast of colour : $b and their application to the arts of painting, decoration of buildings, mosaic work, tapestry and carpet weaving, calico printing, dress, paper staining, printing, military clothing, illumination, landscape, and flower gardening, &c.

Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène)

Color

dissimulating a tint of the, _ib._
    Composition, predominance of a certain colour in, 100;
      distribution of colours in, 101.
    Compound colours, 26, 27, 28.
    CONTRAST of COLOURS, 1, 4, 8;
      law and formulæ of, 8, 9, 10, 29 _et seq._;
      simultaneous and successive, 29, 87;
      mixed, 29-33, 88;
      law of, 34;
      harmonies of, 48, 217;
      lectures on, at the Gobelins, 80;
      uses of the law of, 89 _et seq._;
      principles of, 91;
      results of, 93;
      applications of the law of, 95 _et seq._;
      principles of in connexion with the production of tapestry, 109;
      law of demonstrated in calico-printing, 119-121;
      advantages of with regard to clothing, 165;
      harmonies of in gardening, 182, 183, 184;
      in the arrangement of plants and flowers, 194;
      effect of upon the browns and lights of wool and silk employed
          in tapestry and carpets, 208.
    Cornices for the interior of a house, 157.

                              D.
    Daylight, modifications produced by the, 73.
    Definitions of terms of art, 34.
    Diagrams, chromatic, 36-46.
    Distribution of colours in a composition, 100, 101.
    Draperies of women as associated with complexion, 169-171;
      rose-red, _ib._;
      delicate green, yellow, violet, and blue, 170;
      orange, white, and black, 171;
      results applicable to portrait painting, 178.
    Dress of women, assortment of colours in the, 177.

                              E.
    Egyptians, various colours used by the, 138.
    Eye, different states of the, in seeing colours, 200, 201, 202.

                              F.
    Females, colours of their clothing, 167;
      the dress assorting with fair skins, _ib._;
      colours of the hair and head-dress of, 168;
      of the complexion and the contiguous drapery, 169.
    Figures, coloured, in paper-hangings, 121-3.
    Flat tints, painting on the system of, 69, 81, 82, 217;
      for ornamenting boxes, tables, screens, &c., 218.
    Flowers, Coloured, in paper-hangings, 121;
      arrangement of according to their colours, 180;
      assortments of, when the plants are apart, 181;
      when they are indiscriminately mixed, 182;
      assortments of, as to harmonies of contrast and analogy, 182, 183;
      small masses of designated a bed, 187;
      law of contrasts in the arrangement of, 194.
    Foliage of ligneous plants, assortment of according
      to their colour, 184.
    Forest, definition of a, 186.
    Form, its influence in the effect of contrast of two colours, 213.
    Formulæ which represent the law of simultaneous contrast of colours, 8.
    French gardening, 191.
    Furniture, tapestries for, 220.

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The laws of contrast of colour : $b and their application to the arts of painting, decoration of buildings, mosaic work, tapestry and carpet weaving, calico printing, dress, paper staining, printing, military clothing, illumination, landscape, and flower gardening, &c.

The laws of contrast of colour : $b and their application to the arts of painting, decoration of buildings, mosaic work, tapestry and carpet weaving, calico printing, dress, paper staining, printing, military clothing, illumination, landscape, and flower gardening, &c.

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