Colours of Nature
STILL BEST FOR TWEEDS For centuries the colouring of tweeds was mainly dependent on natural conditions: tho soil, the flowers, the sun and the wind furnished dyes and made the colours. Since the invention and development of the chemical dye these conditions have been changed. The advantage of this invention needs no emphasising; but it also has its drawbacks; while enabling the producer to use an unlimited amount of colours, it often tempts him to turn out a weed which has no longer any connection with its natural character. “Blendings of attractive colours borrowed from Nature are best’’ is tho judgment of a leading English designer of tweeds. “We try to be as faithful to Nature as possible and that can bo greatly assisted if -we follow artistic studies by famous artists whose association of ideas is likely to produce pleasurable emotions which will be lasting. One has only to visit the Burlington Galleries where some of the most famous paintings by Old Alasters wero recently lent for public view, to appreciate the fact that we may have lost some of this art by modern methods.’’
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 153, 1 July 1939, Page 15
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189Colours of Nature Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 153, 1 July 1939, Page 15
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