Practice question · True or false
Chevreul concluded that the Gobelins weavers were right and the black dye was chemically defective.
Hints
- He was a chemist and tested the dye first.
- The complaint depended on which colours the black sat beside.
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False
Why
False. He found the dye sound. The blacks only looked weak next to particular blues, so the defect was in the seeing rather than in the wool, and pursuing that gave him the law of simultaneous contrast and a book that has outlived every dye he ever made.
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