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Indigo has a powerful hold on the imagination but, until now, the actual application of the dye and possible explanations underlying the practice have rarely been considered. The dyestuff is equally fascinating to the scientist, to Adolf von Baeyer in the 19th century, or to the modern chemist using modern instrumental methods for its characterisation. Indigoid dyes, lichen dyes, even mud and other naturally occurring organic colouring matters were among the subjects for discussion at the 18th Meeting of Dyes in History and Archaeology, held in Brussels in 1999. The textiles and other artefacts coloured with the dyes are no less interesting and varied. Romanian and Polish textiles and, as the cover illustrates, Japanese ukiyo-e prints are only examples of the possible uses discussed in this book.

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'It is the rare scientific journal of which one wants or is able to read the whole. With this one, one almost can, and the contributions often inform and support one another...'Studies in Conservation 47 2002: 280

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'Woad, Tattooing, and Archaeology of Rebellion in Britain'Gilly Carr'Adolf von Baeyer and the Indigo Molecule'Christopher J. Cooksey and Alan T. Dronsfield'NMR Spectroscopy of leuco Indigotins and Formation of Deuterated Indigotins'Gundula Voss'The Etymology and Botany of some European Lichen Dyes'Karen Diadick Casselman'Botanical Alternatives to Alum'G.W. Taylor'The Right Mud: Studies in Mud-Tannic Dyeing in West China and West Surrey'Deryn O'Connor and Ann Richards'Traditional Maori Dyes'Rangi Te Kanawa, Scott Thomsen, Gerald Smith, lan.Miller, Claude Andary and Dominique Cardon'Colour in Modem Polish Tapestry (Poster presentation)'Katarzyna Schmidt-Przewozna'Analysis of Natural Dyes from Romanian 19th-20th-Century Ethnographical Textiles by DAD-HPLC'Irina Petroviciu and Jan Woutcrs'Photo-oxidation Products of Quercetin and Morin as Markers for the Characterisation of Natural Flavonoid Yellow Dyes in Ancient Textiles'Ester S.B. Ferreira, Anita Quye, Hamish McNab and Alison N. Hulme'Non-Destructive Analysis of Ukiyo-e, Traditional Japanese Woodblock Prints, using a Portable X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer'Yasuko Noda and Susumu Shimoyama'The Classification of Coloured Organic Materials in Painting and Applied Arts on the Basis of Natural Dyes'Valeri Golikov'The Use of Coloured Organic Materials based on Natural Dyes in 15th-19th-Century Russian Icon Painting'Valeri Golikov and Zoe Zharikova

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