Colouring textiles
Subtitle: a history of natural dyestuffs in industrial Europe
By: by Agustí Nieto-Galan.
Series: Boston studies in the philosophy of science -- v. 217
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Dyes and dyeing -- Europe -- History -- 18th century; Dyes and dyeing -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
Description: "Audience: Historians of science and technology, historians of chemistry, philosophers, economic historians, professional chemists, arts and crafts historians, and cultural anthropologists."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: Natural dyestuffs and the kingdoms of nature; title: Sites of dyeing and printing textiles: from the workshop to the factory system; title: The "science" of natural dyestuffs in the laboratory; title: Circulating skills in a European network: the "republic of chemist-dyers"; title: Artisans and artists in dyeing and printing; title: Towards the "artificial": a long-standing technological change.