Dyes in history and archaeology 16/17

Papers Presented at the 16th Meeting, Lyons, 1997, and the 17th Meeting, Greenwich, 1998. Contents Incomplete contents Plant dyes : from archaeology to industry / Patrick Brenac [et al.] Yellow dyes of historical importance. III. New historical and chemical evidence on a wild Mediterranean dye-plant, daphne gnidium / Dominique Cardon and Claude Andary The technology of silk dyeing by cochineal. II. The experimental investigation of the influences of types and concentrations of cations / Valery Golikov The technology of silk dyeing by cochineal. III. The experimental investigation of the influences of pH, water quality, cream of tartar, and oak galls / Valery Golikov Synthetic alizarin : the dye that changed history / Alan Dronsfield, Trevor Brown, and Christopher Cooksey Mario Fortuny (1871-1949) : his use of natural dyes / Frances Pritchard Traditional recipes for natural dyeing of wool in the south of Tunisia / Naceur Ayed and Abir Alatrache Colorants used in the material culture of Papua New Guinea / Rowena Hill Dyeing with indigo and mud in Senegal and Mali / Jenny Balfour-Paul The last indigo dyer in Tunisia : technology and quality control / Abir Alatrache and Naceur Ayed Indigo and the 40 robbers : romantic transfigurations of the blue-printer's trade in modern society / Georg Stark Revival of Biblical tekhelet dyeing with banded dye-murex (phyllonotus trunculus) : chemical anomalies / Irving I. Ziderman Chemical studies on nucella lapillus / Christopher Cooksey and Robert Withnall The synthesis and properties of 6-bromoindigo : indigo blue or Tyrian purple? : the effect of physical state on the colours of indigo and bromoindigos / Christopher Cooksey Dye analyses using derivative UV-visible spectrophotometry and fibre-safe extraction with EDTA / Recep Karadog and Harald Böhmer Orchil lichens of Tunisia : chromotographic identification and dyeing system / Tijani Karmous and Naceur Ayed The possibility of differentiation and identification of red and blue 'soluble' dyewoods : determination of species used in dyeing and chemistry of their dyestuffs / Witold Nowik The dye of rubia peregrina I. Preliminary investigations / Jan Wouters A successful Talmudic-flavored high-performance liquid chromatographic analysis of carthamin from red safflower dyeings / Zvi C. Koren Preliminary research into lac lake pigments using HPLC/electrospray mass spectrometry / Raymond White and Jo Kirby Development of analytical techniques for the study of natural yellow dyes in historic textiles / Ester S.B. Ferreira [et al.] Analysis of natural organic pigments by laser desorption mass spectrometry (LDMS) : a preliminary study to spatially resolved mass spectrometry / Nicolas Wyplosz [et al.] The colouring of alum-tawed skins on late Medieval books / Cheryl Porter Influence of fungicides and insecticides on colour material / Oliver Hahn Degredation of artefacts caused by iron-containing dyes / Vincent Daniels