Dyes in history and archaeology 20
Subtitle: including papers presented at the 20th meeting held at the Instituut Collectie Nederland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1-2 November 2001
By: edited by Jo Kirby with the assistance of Chris Cooksey, Maarten R. van Bommel and Anita Quye.
Contributors: Kirby, Jo.; Instituut Collectie Nederland.; State University College at Buffalo. Dept. of Art Conservation.
Publisher: Archetype
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781873132296
Subjects: Dyes and dyeing -- History.; Dyes and dyeing -- Textile fibers.
Other titles: Art Conservation Department Library
Notes: Art Conservation Department Library.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: A concise history of dye analysis; value: Possible future developments in the analysis of organic dyes; value: The analysis of dyes with HPLC coupled to photodiode array and fluorescence detection; value: Studying dyes by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry; value: Analysis of colored compounds found in natural dyes by thermospray liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (TSP LC-MS) and a preliminary study of the application to analysis of natural dyes used on historic textiles; value: TLC and HPLC analysis of red and violet cotton yarns of Indonesian textiles; value: Dye analyses helped to determine the treatment of two historically important textiles; value: Stabilization of cellulosic textiles decorated with iron-containing dyes; value: Components of mordants and the silk fabrics treated with them; value: Madder and Gromwell dyeing with alum in the Nara Era, 8th century, in Japan - duplicate mordanting; value: Historical dyes in Poland and their revival; value: Description and analysis of four Moroccan uses of saffron: saffron - body and sexuality, art and ritual; value: Processing of indigo plants and dyeing with indigo in Japan: impressions of a visit in Autumn 2000; value: Colour variations in Tyrian purple dyeing; value: The first optimal all-Murex all-natural purple dyeing in the Eastern Mediterranean in a millennium and a half- The purple fermentation vat: dyeing or painting parchment with Murex trunculus; value: Chinese green, an enduring mystery; value: It happened by chance: the discovery of Malachite green; value: Dyes (and pigments) as food additives (and adulterants); value: The compatibility of transmission electron microscopy and micro-Raman spectroscopy: application to parchment illustrations; value: A mass spectrometric study of the red Naphthol PR170 as pigment and in acrylic emulsion paint; value: Recent publications concerning the analysis and history of dyes: abstracts of books and papers received before July 2003.