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Colouring Textiles

A History of Natural Dyestuffs in Industrial Europe

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. Agustí Nieto-Galan

    1. Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 217)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Natural Dyestuffs and the Kingdoms of Nature

    • Agustí Nieto-Galan
    Pages 1-41

  3. Sites of Dyeing and Printing Textiles: From the Workshop to the Factory System

    • Agustí Nieto-Galan
    Pages 43-84

  4. The “Science” of Natural Dyestuffs in the Laboratory

    • Agustí Nieto-Galan
    Pages 85-121

  5. Circulating Skills in a European Network: The “Republic of Chemist-Dyers”

    • Agustí Nieto-Galan
    Pages 123-151

  6. Artisans and Artists in Dyeing and Printing

    • Agustí Nieto-Galan
    Pages 153-180

  7. Towards the “Artificial”: A Long-Standing Technological Change

    • Agustí Nieto-Galan
    Pages 181-204

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 205-246
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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 book explores the study and cultivation of dye-plants in botanical gardens and plantations, and the tacit values hidden in dyeing workshops, factories, laboratories, or national and international exhibitions. It metaphorically submits the natural dyestuffs of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to a series of systematic historical tests, and traces back the circulation of those sources of colours through colonial spaces, dye works, cross-cultural networks, schools of artistic design, and science-based industries for the making of synthetic colorants.
Colouring Textiles contributes to a better understanding of the role of natural dyestuffs in the processes of industrialization in Western Europe.
Audience: Historians of science and technology, historians of chemistry, philosophers, economic historians, professional chemists, arts and crafts historians, and cultural anthropologists.

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  • Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

    Agustí Nieto-Galan

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