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As styles developed and changed over the nineteenth century it was inevitable that colour schemes would change with them. In addition to these changes, developments in the science of colour perception meant that the perception of colours in combination was better understood. The development of improved dye technologies also meant that a new range of colours became available. John Claudius Loudon in his Encyclopaedia noted that ‘It must be confessed that this department of the art of interior decoration [colour scheming] has not been hitherto reduced to any regular theory, and that the subject appears to be only understood by artists of a superior description, whose employment is necessarily very limited’.