Museums are facing difficulties with textile objects as they begin implementing LEDs into galleries. The damage caused by light is aesthetically and physically damaging to artifacts, and is almost completely irreversible. LEDs have enormously variable SPDs that can cause the color of artifacts to look distorted to viewers. This occurs when the wavelengths reflected by the dyes are absent from the spectrum of the LED selected. Research to explore the effects of LEDs on early synthetic dyes has been conducted to understand the consequences of implementing LEDs in museum galleries. Findings show that when information from the lamp SPD and textile light reflectance data are used together, that it is possible to select lamps that give the appearance of increased color saturation without harming the artifact.