Natural dyes : sources, tradition, technology and science /
"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. Som...
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London :
Archetype,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. The art of dyeing. Ch. 1. The experience of centuries
- Ch. 2. The discovery and mastery of mordants and mordanting
- pt. 2. Dye-plants. Ch. 3. Reds, violets, russets : safflower and quinone dyes
- Ch. 4. A world of reds : Rubiaceae plants rich in red anthraquinone dyes
- Ch. 5. A wealth of yellow : plants containing flavonoids
- Ch. 6. Flavonoids, but not yellow
- Ch. 7. Yellow, but not flavonoids
- Ch. 8. Cocaigne to cowboys : indigo plants, indigo blues
- Ch. 9. Into darkness : tannin plants
- Ch. 10. Dyes from lichens and fungi
- pt. 3. Dyeing animals : purple-giving molluscs and red dye scale insects. Ch. 11. Purple from molluscs
- Ch. 12. Vermilion, scarlet and crimson : scale insect sources of anthraquinone dyes.