Persian blue, pomegranate flower, spiny lobster, wine soup, pale
flesh, dove breast, golden wax, grass green, green sand, rotten
olive, modest plum, agate, rich French gray, gunpowder of the
English...these are just some of the colour names of old fabric to
fire the imagination. The Dyer's Handbook concerns a unique
manuscript from the eighteenth century; a dyers memoirs from
Languedoc, containing recipes for dyes with corresponding colour
samples. It is an exceptional document, hugely rare and of great
significance not only to textile historians but dyers and
colourists today, as thanks to the information in the manuscript
the colours can be reproduced exactly, with the same ingredients,
or reproduced using modern techniques by matching the colour
samples. To the English translation of the text, together with
facsimile pages reproduced in colour from the original manuscript,
are added essays meant to situate it in its historical, economic
and technological contexts. For those historians who have long been
fascinated by the change in scale and the amount of innovation that
occurred in woollen cloth production in Europe during the 17th and
18th centuries, The Dyer's Handbook brings first-hand insight into
the daily preoccupations and tasks of a key actor in the success
story of the Languedocian broadcloth production specially devised
for export to the Levant. Even non-specialists may be interested in
understanding the clever management and technical organisation that
made it possible for the author to produce, dye, finish, pack and
export up to 1,375 pieces of superfine broadcloth per year,
representing nearly 51 km of cloth.
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