The British Colour Council, in collaboration with the Royal Horticultural Society, has produced a book of 100 colour plates, each containing four sections, four hundred colours in. al which ie now on sale at the price of one gumes This is the frst of two volumes calculated to bring order out of the chaos of ideas and terms in which colour has been far too long involved The work is called the "Horticultural Colour Chart," and in its preparation between three and four thousand flowers, and the plumage of many birds have been compared, and it is expected Die Wacht that, as a result, a work has been prepared [which will be of use to the textile and all colour using industries, It is stated that some of the tints of the various hues are so subtle in grada~ tion that It would take a very keen eye to detect them, though, of course as they are individually numbered that difficulty has to a very. great extent been surmounted. It is stated that 9
{textile manufacturer who may wish to describe the hue of a new cloth may call it any fanciful name he likes for the purpose of window display. etc, though to him, Imerely "Butterfly Bue, 645/2"
Jof the hue and the number of the tint Fetail purposes he would probably call Blue" or some equally romantic sounding name. [Similarly the producer of a new rose might find "Scarlet Delight 1000/1" as the official description of the colour of his bloom, though he would Jnot dare s0 to describe it to the flower fancier. IThen it would in all probability be called "Flame [Apricot" or "Maiden's Lips" or even something gastronomically sounding as "Blush-Salmon.* The art critic may in time find such a work of assistance. Thus when seeking to describe that hue which some painters got into their pictures, and which Ruskin averred reminded him of nothing less than a heap of decaying vegetation he might very well write "Too much insistence upon the use of Sap Green 760/3 to my mind completely spoils this artist's work. It is a mannerism which should be avoided. while if he id {had lifted his sky tones with a freer use of Brown Pink, $63/2 he would in the main have achieved a much better effect." Of course the newspaper reader will need to have his colour chart beside him as he reads such remarks, but Jdoubtless in a very short space of time' the feminine section of humanity will have adopted the system when a mame and a number will mean something infinitely more ethereal than a mere address. "It is {0 be expected that one of these days a similar guide to the colour of women's stockings will be produced to relieve male ignorance when entrusted with the task of buying their spouse's hose.
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