The Dyer's Handbook: Memoirs of an 18th Century Master by Dominique Cardon

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By Dominique Cardon

Persian blue, pomegranate flower, spiny lobster, wine soup, light flesh, dove breast, golden wax, grass eco-friendly, eco-friendly sand, rotten olive, modest plum, agate, wealthy French grey, gunpowder of the English……..just a number of the color names of outdated cloth to fireside the mind's eye. Memoirs on Dyeing matters a distinct manuscript from the eighteenth century; a dyers memoirs from Languedoc, containing recipes for dyes with corresponding color samples. it truly is a very good rfile, highly infrequent and of serious importance not just to fabric historians yet dyers and colourists at the present time, as due to the knowledge within the manuscript the colors will be reproduced precisely, with an analogous constituents, or reproduced utilizing glossy options by means of matching the color samples. To the English translation of the textual content, including facsimile pages reproduced in color from the unique manuscript, are extra essays intended to situate it in its historic, fiscal and technological contexts. For these historians who've lengthy been excited about the swap in scale and the volume of innovation that happened in woollen textile creation in Europe in the course of the seventeenth and 18th centuries, the Memoirs on Dyeing deliver first-hand perception into the day-by-day preoccupations and initiatives of a key actor within the good fortune tale of the Languedocian broadcloth creation specifically devised for export to the Levant. Even non-specialists can be drawn to realizing the shrewdpermanent administration and technical enterprise that made it attainable for the writer to supply, dye, end, pack and export as much as 1,375 items of superfine broadcloth according to yr, representing approximately fifty one km of cloth.

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