Colour in woven design

Roberts Beaumont's Colour in Woven Design is a rigorous and remarkably lucid treatise on the principles governing colour in textiles across woollen, worsted, cotton, and silk manufacture. Combining scientific explanation with practical application, the book examines dyeing, colour harmony, optical effects in woven structure, and the technical conditions that shape successful textile design. Its style is characteristically late-Victorian and early modern in its confidence in system, classification, and industrial knowledge, yet it remains attentive to aesthetic judgment. Situated within the great period of British textile education and manufacture, the work stands at the intersection of art, chemistry, and loom technology. Beaumont was a distinguished textile scholar and teacher associated with Yorkshire's manufacturing culture, a world in which design reform and industrial competitiveness were deeply intertwined. His expertise emerged from direct engagement with the technical education movement that sought to elevate British textile production through disciplined study of colour, structure, and material behaviour. This background clearly informs the book's practical seriousness and its pedagogical clarity. This volume is especially recommended to historians of design, textile specialists, and readers interested in the meeting of science and craftsmanship. It rewards both scholarly study and practical consultation, offering a historically important and intellectually substantial account of how colour becomes meaningful in woven form.