The dyer's handbook: memoirs on dyeing by a French gentleman-clothier in the age of enlightenment translated and contextualised

• • Is type of work 

    Books

• Alternate title

  Dyer's handbook : memoirs of an 18th-century master colourist

Contributors

• • Has editor 

    Cardon, Dominique

Publisher

• Publication

  Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2016

• Year

  • Publication year 

    2016

Is about

• Subject

  • As subject 

    weefkunst
  • As subject 

    kleurstoffen
  • As subject 

    geverfde weefsels

Type

• Language

  • Has publication language 

    English

• Translated from

  • Is translated from 

    French

Classification

• ISBN

  • 1785702114
  • 9781785702112

Annotations / title notes

• Notes

  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.

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