The Red Dyes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Red Dyes write by Gösta Sandberg. This book was released on 1996-12-31. The Red Dyes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book reveals the fascinating history of how the natural red dyes came to various people and cultures centuries ago. Gosta Sandberg's narratives are filled with tension and drama. Historical events, tragic experiments, and amusing anecdotes are interspersed with well-informed descriptions of how the red dyes were developed and used on textile products of various kinds. Turkey red dyeing - the most complicated dyeing process ever invented by humans - is covered in depth. Gosta explores the fascinating history of Indian, Persian, and Turkey red calico prints, explaining how it is possible to find Javanese patterns on the red shawls of Dalecarleian women. The text is complemented with unique photographic material of pattern sketches, recipes, and test sample excerpts and original prints from manufacturers' archival treasures. Contemporary recipes for dyeing with madder and cochineal are also included.
A Perfect Red
A Perfect Red - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Perfect Red write by Amy Butler Greenfield. This book was released on 2009-10-06. A Perfect Red available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “You’ll finish [Greenfield’s] book with new respect for color, especially for red. With A Perfect Red, she does for it what Mark Kurlansky in Salt did for that common commodity.”—Houston Chronicle Interweaving mystery, empire, and adventure, Amy Butler Greenfield’s masterful popular history offers a window onto a world far different from our own: a world in which the color red was rare and precious—a source of wealth and power for those who could unlock its secrets. And in this world nothing was more prized than cochineal, a red dye that produced the brightest, strongest red the Old World had ever seen. A Perfect Red recounts the story of this legendary red dye, from its cultivation by the ancient Mexicans and discovery by 16th-century Spanish conquistadors to the European pirates, explorers, alchemists, scientists, and spies who joined in the chase to unlock its secrets, a chase that lasted more than three centuries. It evokes with style and verve this history of a grand obsession, of intrigue, empire, and adventure in pursuit of the most desirable color on earth.
A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom
A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom write by John Boyne. This book was released on 2020-08-11. A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the bestselling author of A Ladder to the Sky—“a darkly funny novel that races like a beating heart” (People)—comes a new novel that plays out across all of human history: a story as precise as it is unlimited. This story starts with a family. For now, it is a father and a mother with two sons, one with his father’s violence in his blood, one with his mother’s artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will determine their fate. It is a beginning. Their stories will intertwine and evolve over the course of two thousand years. They will meet again and again at different times and in different places. From Palestine at the dawn of the first millennium and journeying across fifty countries to a life among the stars in the third, the world will change around them, but their destinies remain the same. It must play out as foretold. From the award-winning author of The Heart’s Invisible Furies comes A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom, an epic tale of humanity. The story of all of us, stretching across two millennia. Imaginative, unique, heartbreaking, this is John Boyne at his most creative and compelling.
Cochineal Red
Cochineal Red - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cochineal Red write by Elena Phipps. This book was released on 2010. Cochineal Red available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From antiquity to the present day, color has been embedded with cultural meaning. Associated with blood, fire, fertility, and life force, the color red has always been extremely difficult to achieve and thus highly prized." "This book discusses the origin of the red colorant derived from the insect cochineal, its early use in Precolumbian ritual textiles from Mexico and Peru, and the spread of the American dyestuff through cultural interchange following the Spanish discovery and conquest of the New World in the 16th century. Drawing on examples from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, it documents the use of this red-colored treasure in several media and throughout the world.
The Chemistry of Food Dyes
The Chemistry of Food Dyes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chemistry of Food Dyes write by Dianne N. Epp. This book was released on 1995. The Chemistry of Food Dyes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This teacher resource contains background information and hands-on activities that explore the history, safety, and purpose of food colorants. Students investigate the compounds that give foods their natural color and the synthetic colorants currently approved for the use in foods. Teachers will appreciate the reproducible classroom materials, cross-curricular integration ideas, and clear references to the National Science Education Standards. Appropriate for grades 9¿12.
