Natural colorants for dyeing and lake pigments
Subtitle: practical recipes and their historical sources
By: by Jo Kirby, Martin van Bommel, Andre Verhecken ; contributions by Marika Spring, Ina Vanden Berghe, Heike Stege, Mark Richter
Contributors: Bommel, Maarten R. van, author; Verhecken, André, author; Spring, Marika, author; Vanden Berghe, Ina, author; Stege, Heike, author; Richter, Mark, author
Publisher: Archetype Publications
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9781909492158
Subjects: Pigments; Dyes and dyeing
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Case study : dyes in the Brussels tapestry 'Nathan rebukes David' (1530-40); title: Natural dyes and their sources : plants, insect reds and shellfish purple; title: The techniques of dyeing and pigment making with natural colorants : the basic chemistry behind the processes; title: Recipes for dyeing; title: Recipes for making lake pigments from natural dyes.