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The dyer's handbook : memoirs on dyeing by a French gentleman-clothier in the age of enlightenment translated and contextualised
Mâemoires de teinture.
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- Online
Details
- Creator
- edited by Dominique Cardon
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Oxford, [England] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : Oxbow Books, 2016
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (361 pages) : illustrations, tables
- ISBNs
- 1785702130, 9781789255492, 9781785702112, 9781785702129, 9781785702143, 1785702149, 1785702114, 1785702122, 178925549X, 9781785702136
- OCLC
- ocn948669281, ocn953379425
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- English
- Frontcover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Part I - A new life for a mysterious manuscript -- Chapter 1. In Search of an Author -- Chapter 2. A Maimed Manuscript -- Chapter 3. Cloth and Context -- Part II - Memoirs on dyeing - English translation of the original French text -- Memoirs on dyeing -- 1st Memoir -Memoir on dye-drugs, -- Part III - Polyphony on Colours -- Chapter 4. Transparent, Crystalline: Water, Mordants, Minerals -- Chapter 5. Blues -- Chapter 6. Reds -- Chapter 7. Yellows -- Chapter 8. Browns, Blacks, Greys -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Bibliography and sources -- List of tables -- List of figures and diagrams -- Illustration acknowledgements