This book is being offered at a very good pre-order discount by Amazon..
$81.90 (list price $130).
The book is due out next month (July 30): 500 pages, 560 Illustrations. I
pre-ordered a copy.
Beth
The following is the publisher's information:
http://www.archetype.co.uk/
Natural Dyes by Dominique Cardon
This authoritive resource is an expanded, corrected and updates translation
of the award winning book Le Monde des Teintures Naturelles (published
2003, Belin,Paris). It is aimed at dyers, designers, artists, weavers,
spinners, curators, conservators and restorers, museums, research
institutions........ all those who have a professional or personal interest
in or passion for colour.
Drawing on many years of field and laboratory research, the author presents
more than 300 plant and 30 animal dyes in a scientific and technical
context within a handsome illustrated volume.
Until the 19th century, natural dyes were the only sources for colouring
textiles, leather, bone and ivory, wood, food, cosmetics etc. and were also
part of many pigments of the artist's palette. Unlike modern synthetic dyes
which, for financial and technical reasons have all but replaced them,
natural dyes are not just the result of one particular colourant. They are
a synergy of many substances with diverse chemical structures. While many
may be colourless in the plant or animal, they are changed by the
extraction and production processes into a myriad of colours of
unsurpassable richness and subtlety.
This title is due for publication autumn 2006
CONTENTS
Part One - the Art of Dyeing
1. Dyeing methods through the Ages
2. Mordants : Discovery and methods
Part Two - Dye Plants
3. Reds, violets, oranges
4. Anthraquinone red
5. A yellow world : plants containing flavanoids
6. The flavanoids which do not dye yellow
7. The yellows which are not flavanoids
8. From Cockagne to the cowboys : indigo plants
9. Beiges, greys, blacks, browns : tannin plants
10. Lichens and mushrooms for dyeing
Part Three - Purple from shells and Red from insects
11. Purple : indigo molluscs
12. Red 'worms' and anthraquinones
Appendix
Colourants and their chemical structures
ISBN: 190498200x £75.00 / $130.00
Hardback. 560 Illustrations
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