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The dyer's handbook : memoirs on dyeing / by a French gentleman-clothier in the Age of Enlightenment translated and contextualised ; edited by Dominique Cardon.
- 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.
- Publication
- Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2016.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Cardon, Dominique
- Description
- xii, 164 pages, 32 pages of unnumbered plates; 31 cm.
- Series Statement
- Ancient textiles series ; vol. 26
- Uniform Title
- Mémoires de teinture. English.
- Ancient textiles series 26.
- Subjects
- Dyes and dyeing > Wool
- Dyes and dyeing > Textile fibers
- Manuscripts, French
- History
- Early works
- 1700-1799
- France > Languedoc
- Manuscripts, French > France > Languedoc
- Dyes and dyeing > Early works to 1800
- Dyes and dyeing > Wool > France > Languedoc > History > 18th century
- Dyes and dyeing > Textile fibers > France > Languedoc > History > 18th century
- Genre/Form
- Early works
- History
- Early works.
- History.
- Note
- Translation of Mémoires de teinture.
- Translation into English of an anonymous French manuscript held in a private collection consisting of four essays produced around 1763 possibly written by Paul Gout of the Royal Manufactures of Bize, France in the Languedoc Region, originally consisting of about 100 pages in which were held swaths of sample dyed woolen cloth and including recipes for their coloring. The work has been published in French under the title Mémoires de teinture.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part I : A new life for a mysterious manuscript. In search of an author -- A maimed manuscript -- Cloth and context -- Part II : Memoirs on dyeing -- English translation of the original French text -- Part III : Polyphony on colours. Transparent, crystalline : water, mordants, minerals -- Blues -- Reds -- Yellows -- Browns, blacks, greys.
- ISBN
- 9781785702112
- 1785702114
- 9781785702129 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2016013179
- OCLC
- 930682977
- SCSB-12807644
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library