Colouring Textiles: A History of Natural Dyestuffs in Industrial Europe

by A. Nieto-Galan

Colouring Textiles is an attempt to provide a new cross-cultural comparative approach to the art of dyeing and printing with natural dyestuffs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Divided into thematic chapters, it uncovers new data from the vast historical heritage of natural dyestuffs from a range of European cities, to present new historiographic insights for the understanding of this technology. Through a sort of anatomic dissection, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048157218
• ISBN13: 9789048157211
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"