Dyes in history and archaeology 16/17
Subtitle: including papers presented at the 16th meeting, held at the Musee Historique des Tissus, Lyons, 11-12 December 1997, and the 17th meeting, held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 26-27 November 1998
By: edited by Jo Kirby.
Contributors: Kirby, Jo.; State University College at Buffalo. Dept. of Art Conservation.
Publisher: Archetype
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781873132975
Subjects: Dyes and dyeing -- History.; Dyes and dyeing -- Textile fibers.
Other titles: Art Conservation Department Library
Notes: Art Conservation Department Library.
Table of contents: title: Plant dyes: from archaeology to industry; title: Yellow dyes of historical importance. III. New historical and chemical evidence on a wild Mediterranean dye-plant; title: The technology of silk dyeing by cochineal. II. The experimental investigation of the influences of types and concentrations of cations; title: The technology of silk dyeing by cochineal. III. The experimental investigation of the influences of pH, water quality, cream of tartar and oak galls; title: synthetic alizarin - the dye that changed history; title: Mariano Fortuny (1871-1949): his use of natural dyes; title: Traditional recipes for natural dyeing of wool in the South of Tunisia; title: Colorants used in the material culture of Papua New Guinea; title: Dyeing with indigo and mud in Senegal and Mali; title: The last indigo dyer in Tunisia: technology and quality control; title: Indigo and the 40 robbers: romantic transfigurations of the blue-printer's trade in modern society; title: Revival of biblical Tekhelet dyeing with banded dye-murex (phyllonotus trunculus): chemical anomalies; title: Chemical studies on Nucella lapillus; title: Chemical studies on Nucella lapillus; title: The synthesis and properties of 6-bromoindigo: indigo blue or tyrian purple? The effect of physical state on the colours of indigo and bromoindigos; title: the microbiology of the medieval woad vat (poster presentation); title: Dye analyses using derivative UV-visible spectrophotometry and fibre-safe extraction with EDTA; title: Orchil lichens of Tunisia: chromatographic identification and dyeing system; title: The possibility of differentiation and identification of red and blue 'soluble' dyewoods: determination of species used in dyeing and chemistry of their dyestuffs; title: The dye of Rubia peregrina. I. Preliminary investigations; title: A successful Talmudic-flavored high-performance liquid chromatographic analysis of Carthamin from red safflower dyeings; title: Preliminary research into Lac Lake pigments using HPLC/electrospray mass spectrometry; title: Development of analytical techniques for the study of natural yellow dyes in historic textiles; title: Analysis of natural organic pigments by laser desorption mass spectrometry (LDMS): a preliminary study to spatially resolved mass spectrometry; title: The colouring of alum-tawed skins on late medieval books; title: Influence of fungicides and insecticides on colour materials; title: Degradation of artefacts caused by iron-containing dyes; title: Recent publications concerning the analysis and history of dyes: abstracts of books and papers received since 1997.