Overview

'The Colourful Past' is aimed mainly at conservators, conservation students, keepers and textile historians, the book presents information on the most relevant dyestuffs used for dyeing textiles, the relation between dyestuffs and organic pigments in paintings and their historical relevance. Emphasis is placed on the combination of historical, technical and scientific knowledge and the way it can be used for the benefit of the conservation of historic textiles. Until the early 1980s the identification of natural dyestuffs was developed and carried out using thin-layer chromatography (TLC) but the development of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) opened up greater possibilities and over the past 30 years hundreds of historic textiles have been investigated using this technique. From many investigations carried out for individual museums and institutions, the author has chosen a number of case studies to illustrate both the possibilities and limitations of dyestuff analysis.

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Author:   Judith H. Hofenk de Graaff ,  Wilma G. Roelofs ,  Maarten van Bommel
Publisher:   Archetype Publications Ltd
Imprint:   Archetype Publications Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   1.202kg
ISBN:  

9781873132135

ISBN 10:   1873132131
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   June 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface Acknowledgements Dyeing with natural dyes; History of textile dyeing,Principles of textile dyeing Red dyestuffs; Alkanna, Henna, Introduction to coccid dyestuffs, Kermes, Polish cochineal, Armenian cochineal, Cochineal, Lac-dye, Introduction to madder types, Madder, Wild madder, Munjeet, Chay root, Galium species, Relbun, Indian mulberry ,Introduction to redwoods, Brazilwood, Red sandalwood, Safflower Yellow dyestuffs; Annatto, Barberry root, Yellow woods, Young fustic, Fustic, Quercitron, Persian berries, Saffron, Turmeric, Weld, Weld, Dyer's broom, Sawwort Blue dyestuffs; Logwood, Indigoid dyestuffs, Woad, Indigo, Indigo,carmine, Purple dyestuffs, Tyrian purple Orchil Black dyestuffs; Galls, Galls, Alder bark, Sumac, Catechu, Black walnut Identification of natural dyestuffs; Introduction, Microchemical,analysis, Chromatography, Thin-layer chromatography, High performance liquid chromatography Bibliography Essays; Dyeing black in 17th-century Holland Textile dyeing in Leyden Historical sources from a scientific point of view Recycling in the 17th century Chintz and its European imitations

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