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Natural Dyes: Sources, Tradition, Technology and Science

Natural Dyes: Sources, Tradition, Technology and Science

Cardon, Dominique

Hardcover

Conservation & PreservationEuropean ArtGeneral Science

ISBN10: 190498200X
ISBN13: 9781904982005
Publisher: Archetype Publications
Published: Aug 1 2007
Pages: 804
Weight: 4.33
Height: 1.70 Width: 7.20 Depth: 9.83
Language: English

At a time when more and more plants and animals are threatened with extinction by humanity's ever-increasing pressure on the land and oceans of the planet, this book sets out to record sources of colorants discovered and used on all the continents from antiquity until the present day.

Some 300 plants and 30 animals (marine molluscs and scale insects) are illustrated and discussed by the author (recently - January 2016 - awarded the Legion d'Honneur for her scientific work), whose passion for natural dyes, with their colours of unequalled richness and subtlety, has taken her across the globe in search of dye sources and dyers. Botanical/zoological details are given for each source and the chemical structures shown for each dye. Dyes employed by different civilisations, identified by dye analyses, are illustrated and relevant historical recipes and detailed descriptions of dyeing processes by traditional dyers are quoted and explained in the light of modern science. Other current uses of such colorants, e.g. in medicine and for food and cosmetics, are also noted.

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