A Revolution in Colour: Natural Dyes and Dress in Europe, c. 1400-1800

Author:   Prof. Giorgio Riello ,  Dr Maria Hayward ,  Ulinka Rublack
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350405622


Pages:   280
Publication Date:   17 October 2024
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Author:   Prof. Giorgio Riello ,  Dr Maria Hayward ,  Ulinka Rublack
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:  

9781350405622


ISBN 10:   1350405620
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   17 October 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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List of Illustrations Editors’ Introduction 1. The Arrival of the Crimson Dyeing Technique in Italy in the Late Fourteenth Century Luca Molà (University of Warwick, UK) 2. The Woad We Have Lost? The Changing Supply Networks of Tuscan dye Businesses between the Local and the Global, 1450-1650 Stephanie Lietzel (Harvard University, USA) 3. Crimson Dyes and the Law in Renaissance Italy Lisa Monnas and Jo Kirby (both Independent Scholars, UK) 4. The Limits of Global Trade: Cochineal and Indigo in the Pre-modern Period Giorgio Riello (European University Institute, Italy) 5. A Dyeing Art: Reconstructing Rosetti's Plictho Sophie Pitman (Aalto University, Finland) 6. The Colourful Language of Dyeing Black Sven Dupré (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) and Natalia Ortegasaez (Antwerp, The Netherlands) 7. Re-Colouring Renaissance Dress: Matthäus Schwarz of Augsburg Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge University, UK) 8. Creating colour in the Stuart Royal Wardrobes, 1566-1701 Maria Hayward (University of Southampton, UK) 9. Innovations and Imitations of Fashion: Colour and Novelty in Early Modern Italian Dress Paula Hohti Erichsen (Aalto University, Finland) 10. French Indigo Trade from Marseille to Levant Marguerite Martin (IDHES - Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, France) 11. Dyes and Dyeing in the Business of Indienne in the Eighteenth Century Kim Siebenhüner (Historisches Institut, Jena, Germany) 12. Identifying Different Pathways to Historical Colour for Scientific Analysis Anita Quye (University of Glasgow, UK) Conclusion: The Cost of Colour: Colonial Networks and Embodied Histories Beverly Lemire (University of Alberta, Canada) Index

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A work with both poetic and practical applications, in its pages learn about the world of colour in textiles before industrialization. Reversing the notion that the wealthy elites preferred to wear black, A Revolution in Colour explores the vibrant textile world of early-modern Europeans when people thought they saw color rather than light. In these pages we feel the textile of early modern consumers, both elite and demotic, come alive through a dazzling array sources. Delight in the colours of the natural world was exceeded only by the technical and material accomplishments in bringing more and more dyes, colours and hues to more and more people. * Peter McNeil, Professor of Design History, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. *


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Maria Hayward is a Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Southampton, UK. She is the author of Stuart Style: Monarchy, Dress and the Scottish Male Elite (2020), Rich Apparel: Clothing at the Law in Henry VIII’s England (2009) and Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII (2007). Giorgio Riello is Professor of Early Modern Global History at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and Professor of Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the co-editor (with Anne Gerritsen) of Writing Material Culture History (2014; 2nd Ed. 2021) Ulinka Rublack is Professor of Early Modern European History at Cambridge University, UK, and author of Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe (2010) and co-editor (with Giorgio Riello) of The Right to Dress: Sumptuary Legislation in a Global Perspective, c.1300-1800 (2018) and (with Maria Hayward) of The First Book of Fashion (2015).

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