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The dyer's handbook

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Title The dyer's handbook : memoirs on dyeing by a French gentleman-clothier in the age of enlightenment translated and contextualised / edited by Dominique Cardon.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Oxford, [England]
Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : Oxbow Books
Creation Date 2016
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references.
English
Content Frontcover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Part I - A new life for a mysterious manuscript -- Chapter 1. In Search of an Author -- Chapter 2. A Maimed Manuscript -- Chapter 3. Cloth and Context -- Part II - Memoirs on dyeing - English translation of the original French text -- Memoirs on dyeing -- 1st Memoir -Memoir on dye-drugs, -- Part III - Polyphony on Colours -- Chapter 4. Transparent, Crystalline: Water, Mordants, Minerals -- Chapter 5. Blues -- Chapter 6. Reds -- Chapter 7. Yellows -- Chapter 8. Browns, Blacks, Greys -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Bibliography and sources -- List of tables -- List of figures and diagrams -- Illustration acknowledgements.
Series Ancient Textiles Series
Volume 26
Extent 1 online resource (361 pages) : illustrations, tables.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2016
National Library system number 997010720969805171
MARC RECORDS
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