Dyeing

Last Updated 11/5/1999

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  • Legacy Art & Book Works, Inc.
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  • The River Farm, (800) USA-WOOL
    Route 1, Box 471
    Fulks Run, Virginia 22830
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    PO Box 400 (262 S. Maple St.)
    Yamhill, OR 97148-0400
  • Woolen Works, (972) 562-9276
    119 S. Tennessee
    McKinney, TX 75069
• Colors, Dyestuffs, and Mordants of the Viking Age: An Introduction
• Dye Recipes from the Innsbruck Manuscript
• Fabric Dying FAQ
• From Caveman to Chemist: Dyes
• Sheepstealer's Woad Crop
• Straw Into Gold
• Unlocking Nature's Color Magic
• History of Woad
• Gwyndolynn Anne the Obscure of West Kingdom
• (lady) Christian de Holacombe. "Dyes and Mordants."
• Dyers (on-topic dyeing discussion): e-mail to majordomo@bolis.com with 'subscribe dyerslist" or 'subscribe dyerslist-digest' Patricia Williams, owner.
• By Author
• Anonymus. Bernensis.
• Austin, Carole. 1986. Woad: A Medieval Dye. Fiberarts 13(3, May/June): 29-30.
• Barnes, Ruth.
  • 1997. Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. New York: Clarendon Press.
  • 1993. Indian Block-Printed Cotton Fragments in the Kelsey Museum, The University of Michigan. Kelsey Museum Studies, Vol. 8. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press
• Bayard, Tania, ed. 1992. A Medieval Home Companion; Housekeeping in the Fourteenth Century. New York: Harper Perennial, a division of Harper Collins Publishers.
• Birrell, Verla. 1959. The Textile Arts.
• Bliss, Anne
  • 1994. North American Dye Plants. Interweave Press.
  • 1976. Getting Woaded for Winter. Interweave 2(1, Fall): 22-23.
• Boucher, Francois Leon Louis. 1987. 20,000 Years of Fashion: The History of Costume and Personal Adornment. 
• Bruenello, Franco. The Art of Dyeing in the History of Mankind.
• Buchanan, Rita.
• 1995. A Dyer’s Garden : From Plant to Pot Growing Dyes for Natural Fibers. Interweave Press. ISBN: 1883010071.
• 1987. Grown Your Own Colors-Plant a Dye Garden. Spin Off XI(1, Spring): 35-40.
• 1987. A Weaver’s Garden. Interweave Press. (Out of print, however, a September 1999 edition of  Weaver's Garden is forthcoming.)
• Cannon, John. Dye Plants and Dyeing.
• Cennini, Cennino d'Andrea. 1960. Libro dell'Arte [The Craftsman’s Handbook]. Trans. Daniel V. Thompson, Jr. New York: Dover Publications, Inc.
• Clouzot, Henri. 1972. Painted and Printed Fabrics: the history of the manufactory at Jouy and other ateliers in France 1760-1815. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Collingwood, Peter.
• Crockett, Candace.
• Crowl, Phillip A. 1991. The Intelligent Traveller's Guide to Historic Ireland.
• Davenport, Milia. 1964. The Book of Costume.
• Druding, Susan C. Dye History from 2600 BC to the 20th Century. (SCA-ARTS, 5/30/97, Re: Period Colours (Scarlet))
• Eastwood, Gillian. 1982. Textiles.  Quseir al-Qadim 1980 Preliminary Report. Donald S. Whitcomb and Janet H. Johnson, eds., pp. 285-326. American Research Center in Egypt Reports, Vol. 7. Malibu: Undena Publications.
• Forrer, Robert. 1894. Die Zeugdrucke der byzantinischen, romanischen, gothischen und spateren Kunstepochen. Strassburg.
• Geijer, Agnes. 1979. A History of Textile Art. Stockhom: Pasold Research Fund. ISBN 0-85667-055-3.
• Gitlitz, David M., and Linda Kay Davidson. 1999. Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews. (pp. 74-76, Onion skin yellow)
• Goodwin, Jill. 1982. A Dyer’s Manual. Pelham Books. ISBN: 0720713277.
• Grae, Ida. Nature's Colors.
• Greison, Sue. The Color Cauldron.
• Guy, John. 1998. Woven Cargoes: Indian Textiles in the East. (Bleaching)
• Hartley, Dorothy. 1979. Lost Country Life. Pantheon books. ISBN 0-304-51036-4.
• Jarman, Christopher. 1988. Illumination for Modern Calligraphers: Practical Ideas from Nineteenth-Century Handbooks. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications.
• King, Donald. 1962. Textiles and the Origins of Printing in Europe. Pantheon: Internationale Zeitschrift fur Kunst_, vol. 20, no. 1 (Jan/Feb 1962), pp. 23-30.
• Lang, George. 1990. The Cuisine of Hungary.
• Leggett, William. Ancient and Medieval Dyes.
• Liber. Magistri Petri de Sancto Audemaro de coloribus faciendis.
• Liles, J.N. 1990. The Art and Craft of Natural Dyeing: Traditional Recipes for Modern Use.
•  Lynton, Linda. 1995. The Sari: Styles, Patterns, History, Techniques. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
• Mahon, Brid. Traditional Dyestuffs in Ireland.
• Newall, Venetia. 1989. An Egg at Easter : A Folklore Study. (History of dyed eggs)
• Regazzi, Marilyn Elizabeth. 1986. Burial-induced color change of dyed and mordanted cotton and wool fabrics. [Davis, Calif.] Dissertation.
• Robinson, Stuart. 1969. A History of Printed Textiles. MIT Press. ISBN 262-18043-X.
• Rogers, Clive. 1983. Early Islamic Textiles. Brighton, England: Rogers & Podmore.
• Rogers, J. Michael, ed. The Topkapi Saray Museum: Costumes, Embroideries and Other Textiles.
• Rossetti. Plitcho.
• Schmedding, Brigitta. 1988. Considering the repeat of woodblock printed textiles. Pp. 153-166 of Opera Textilia Variorum Temporum: To honour Agnes Geijer on her ninetieth birthday 26th October 1988.  Inger Estham and Margareta Nockert, eds.The Museum of National Antiquities, Stockholm, Studies 8. Stockholm: Statens Historiska Museum.
• Thompson, Daniel V. 1956. The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. With a foreward by Bernard Berenson.
• Vogelsang-Eastwood, G. M. 1990. Resist Dyed Textiles from Quseir Al-Qadim, Egypt. Paris: A.E.D.T.A.
• By Title
• Ciba reviews: 1 thru 122
• Compleat Anachronist, Issues 27 and 40.
• Ein Buch non Alten Farben
• Medieval Cloth Printing in Europe. Ciba Review 26, October 1939.
• Oak Gall Recipe. (SCA-ARTS, 6/5/97, Re: Oak Gall Recipe? (Long reply))
• The Secretes of the Reverende Maister Alexis of Piemount
• True Blue. Spin.Off Quarterly Newsletter, September 1982:16.
• Other
• Master Peter of St. Omer
• Kansas City Star's Food section of 3/27 regarding natural Easter egg dyes

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