Spectrum (Victoria and Albert Museum): Heritage Patterns and Colours Hardcover – 30 Aug. 2018

This book is really helpful in sorting colours together and getting ideas for colour coordination.

I love the way they have given a colour breakdown of all colours used in the patterns and the dates these patterns were used/created. I think this book is fabulous. I am very happy with it and could spend hours looking at it. If you’re interested in patterns, colours and historical decoration I think this book would be very useful.

QUALITYIt's a V&A publication, showing historic colours arranged in themes and swatches.A joy to look throughBeautifully presentedCompetitively priced compared to the V&A shopHave a glance on line to get an idea of the contents.This is going to make a wonderful Christmas gift!!

A fantastic reference book.

A really gorgeous and richly illustrated book - a perfect read or gift for anyone who adores colour

What a wonderful book, I am using it for inspiration in all my craft and art work!!

This book is lovely for any artist

A wonderful book although I think I had been given an odd copy with duplicate pages midway through (1500’s repeats itself in middle of the book, with page numbers in 20s again rather than 50s!), and then 1700 has just one page. Anyone else had this?

Sono una textile artist e colleziono libri di approfondimento sulle varie tecniche artistiche diffuse nel mondo ed in particolare sull'arte tessile ed il design. Questo libro è entrato a far parte dei miei tesori. Lo consiglio vivamente ad esperti del settore per lo studio delle palette e dei patterns nel design tessile

Gorgeous book and I use it to do funny stuff with limited pallets.

Combinación de colores al vestir

I bought this as a gift for my sister, who’s currently renovating her 200 year old house. I’m sure the beautiful patterns and colour combinations will give her plenty of inspiration. Now I’m waiting for it to come back into stock, so I’ll have a copy of my own!!

One of the nice features of this book is the key to the V&A website where all the selected patterns are displayed in full run. The color palette notations are quite inspiring as well.