Colours of nature
Subtitle: dyes from the Indian Subcontinent
By: edited by Jenny Balfour-Paul
Series: Mārg -- v. 65, no. 2 (Dec. 2013); Mārg̲ -- v. 65, no. 2 (Dec. 2013)
Publisher: The Marg Foundation
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Mumbai
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
Subjects: Dyes and dyeing
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Only connect / Jenny Balfour-Paul; title: Recalculating colour : Thomas Wardle's remarkable dye experiments / Brenda King; title: Rangeen : colours of life / Ruby Ghuznavi; title: Indigo : from Bengal to blue jeans / Jenny Balfour-Paul; title: The colours of chintz : empirical knowledge of chemistry in 18th-century India / Dominique Cardon; title: A Calcutta florilegia : William Roxburgh's Flora indica drawings / Pramod Kumar K.G.; title: Chay red : forgotten dye of the Coromandel Coast / Bessie Cecil; title: The revival of natural dyes / Jasleen Dhamija in conversation with Monisha Ahmed; title: Ajit Kumar Das : using natural dyes in art / Kanika Mukerji; title: Unexpected treasures from the sea / Rex Cowan; title: Indian dyes and textiles at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew / Mark Nesbitt.