Dyes in History and Archaeology


presentations at meetings

DHA26   2007

Vienna, Austria

7-10 November 2007


Regina Hofmann-de Keijzer, Karina Grömer, Maarten R. van Bommel, Ineke Joosten, Hans Reschreiter and Helga Mautendorfer Hallstatt textiles – the oldest dyed textiles found in Austria
Maria Jaõa Melo, Ana Claro, Isa Rodrigues, Meredith Montague and Richard Newman The color of Andean textiles from the MFA collection
Ilaria Degano and Maria Perla Colombini Dyestuff identification in pre-Peruvian archaeological textiles
Fanny Bessard Medieval dyers' workshops in the Hippodrome of Jerash (Jordan)
Katarzyna Lech, Maria Puchalska, Elżbieta Rosłoniec and Maciej Jarosz Mass spectrometric and liquid chromatographic investigation of historical fabrics from the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw
Zvi C. Koren Color analyses of some unusual textiles from ancient Israel
Christoph Krekel, Stella Eichner and Karin Geißinger De edera et lacca – Identification of a medieval colorant made from Ivy
Masanori Sato Identification of vegetable blue dyestuff “Torichotomine”
Gundula Voss Preparation and properties of polymers with indigo units
Nobuko Shibayama, Elena Phipps, Lucy Commoner, Mark Wypyski Investigation of dyed rabbit hair in a 16th-17th century colonial Latin American textile
John Edmonds Imperial Purple, dye and pigment
Irving Ziderman and Liraz Larush-Asraf Biochemistry of Murex trunculus dyes
Karen Diadick Casselman and Takako Terada Murex and Orchil methods and techniques: part 1
Bernard Verhille HESBAYE and tinctorial plants (1200-1400)
Riikka Räisänen “Let us go for blue, sisters, for madder, brides!” – Dyes and dyeing in the Finnish Karelia
Brian H. Davies William Morris and the discharge of indigo
Chris Cooksey, Ioannis Karapanagiotis, Sophia Sotiropoulou, Evangelia Varella, Euphoria Tsatsaroni, Friedrich Sauter, Leopold Puchinger, Ziad Al-Saad, Omar Abdel-Kareem, Rachid Benslimane, Noureddine Chenfour, Emre Dölen, Recep Karadag, Georg Kremer, Uta Williams, Mahmoud Alawi and Mohammad Mubarak Investigation, revival and optimisation of traditional Mediterranean colouring technology for the conservation of the cultural heritage
Omar Abdel-Kareem and Ziad Al-Saad Preparing of artificial aged dyed textile samples simulated to museum dyed textiles
Leopold Puchinger, Friedrich Sauter and Evangelia Varella The effect of some mordant dyes on the fibre net of textiles
Recep Karadag, Emre Dolen and Turkan Yurdun Identification of dyestuffs in some seventeenth century silk skullcaps by liquid chromatography with diode array detection in the Topkapi Palace Museum collection
Micaella Sousa, Maria Jaõa Melo, A. J. Parola, P. J. T. Morris, H. S. Rzepa and J. Seixas de Melo More secrets of Perkin's Mauveine dye revealed
Maarten van Bommel, Ineke Joosten, Han Neevel, Jaap Boonstra and Paul Bruys Faded flowers, analysis of modern marquetry applied on 17th and 18th century Dutch Furniture
Matthijs de Keijzer, Maarten R. van Bommel and Regina Hofmann-de Keijzer The early synthetic organic dyestuffs: The Yellows
Cindy Connelly Ryan and Mary Baker Determining Display Conditions for the Waldseemüller World Map: lightfastness testing in an anoxic environment
Han Neevel Optimisation of the micro-destructive light fastness tester, the “µ-Fado”
Barbara Błyskal Indigo dyeing and bio-deterioration of a woollen textile
Yassin Zidan, Harby Ezz Eldeen Hassan and Kh. El-Nagar Aging behavior of silk dyed fabric with safflower dye
Anne-Marei Hacke and Chris Carr Time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) analysis of natural dyestuffs
Richard Laursen and Xian Zhang On the detection and significance of glycosides in natural dyes
Heinrich Piening and Peter Kopp A renaissance colour plate revealed. Lost colours of the Renaissance - unexpected results from a masterpiece of renaissance marquetry
Yoshiko Sasaki and Ken Sasaki Non-destructive dye analysis for Japanese historical textiles at 17th C


DHA26 Posters
Ziad AI-Saad and Omar Abdel-Kareem Investigation of artificially aged dyed textiles using High Performance Liquid Chromatography with Photodiode Array Detection (HPLC-PDA)
Mary Ballard, Harry Alden, Lynn Brostoff, Roland Cunningham, Walter Hopwood, Joseph Koles, Odile Madden, Jeffrey Post and Hans Kuhn King Midas's golden color chemistry
Ina Vanden Berghe, Beatrice Devia, Margareta Gleba and Ulla Mannering Study of the dyes found in Early Iron Age Danish textile costume fragments, excavated from peat bogs
Ina Vanden Berghe, Ileana Cretu and Irina Petroviciu Dyes in Romanian archaeological textiles from Mirauti church 16th century
Nathalie Boucherie and Witold Nowik The Dyeing processes of the Nasca Culture in Peru - Identification of dyestuffs Realisation of standards to complete the database
Robert Chenciner and Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov Tattoos, carpets and felts - dyes from Daghestan collected in July 2007
Maria Cybulska, Dickran Kouymjian and Ewa Orlinska-Mianowska Comprehensive analysis of historical fabrics from the collection of National Museum in Warsaw
Vincent Daniels A critical examination of methods for black dyeing
John Edmonds The microbiology of the medieval woad vat
John Edmonds The dyestuffs used in the royal Sicilian robes
Tatiana Falcón Natural dyestuffs in Pre-Columbian art
Valery Golikov, Yuri Borovlev, Boris Zhadanov and Alexander Kalinin The analysis of Phtalocyanine pigments presence in paintings with aid of non-destructive method in situ
Anna Hartl and Regina Hofmann-de Keijzer Imitating historical dyeing methods from the Hallstatt period - dyeing experiments with weld, indigo and oak bark
Suvarnareha Jadhav Ganjifa: Rejuvenation of ancient card game of India
Z. Jurasekova, C. Domingo, J.V. García-Ramos and S. Sánchez-Cortés Surface Enhanced-Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) as an analytical tool in the detection and characterization of natural dyes employed in cultural heritage
Rangi Te Kanawa and Gerald Smith Consolidation of degraded iron-tannate fibres on Maori waist garment - Puipui
Elpida Minopoulou, lemonia Valianou, loannis Karapanagiotis, Sophia Sotiropoulou, Mahmoud Alawi, Mohammad Mubarak and Chris Cooksey Tyrian Purple in Mycenaean wall paintings of the 13th century BC in Pylos, Greece
Katarzyna Lech, Magdalena Orlińska, Katarzyna Połeć-Pawlak, Maria Puchalska and Maciej Jarosz Capillary electrophoresis versus liquid chromatography - alternative tools for identification of anthraquinone natural dyestuffs
Mihai Lupu and Ioan Istudor Indigo in the Romanian tempera paintings, 15th -19th century
Ana Cristina Manhita, Micael Carreira, Helena Vargas, Isabel Ribeiro, Ana Seruya, Cristina Teixeira da Costa, António Estevão Candeias, Alfredo J. Palace Carvalho and João Paulo Prates Ramalho Ageing of natural red dyes - theoretical and experimental study
Irina Petroviciu, Andrei Medvedovici and Florin Albu Some aspects on MS detection of dyes in historic textiles
Erika Ribechini, Thibaut Deviese, Maria Perla Colombini, Martine Regert and Pietro Baraldi Characterization of purple from burials of the Roman period by Raman and DE-MS
Katarzyna Schmidt-Przewozna and Witold Przewozny The magic red and purple in natural colours and their UV barrier properties
Erich Schopf Bacteriography - multiorganismic art painting
Chantel B. Westley and Kirsten Benkendorff Sex-specific Tyrian purple genesis and precursor distribution in the pallial gonoduct of Dicathais orbita (Neogastropoda: Muricidae)

DHA25   2006

Suceava, Romania

21-22 September 2006


André Verhecken Chemical principles of a doomed art: azomethine dye colour photography.
Bernard Verhille Woad pigment trade in Amiens 1380-1490
Cecily M. Grzywacz What is that red? LC-PDA-MS analysis of a red-checked picture canvas
Chris Cooksey Marine indirubins
Doina Emilia Bogdea, Maria Giurginca, Stefania Stoleriu The role played by the scientific techniques used in the examination and analyses of the mural painting of wooden Romanian churches
Dominique Cardon and Iris Brémaud Sources on colours : an 18th century manuscript of dye recipes with woollen-cloth samples
E.V. Karpova, G.G. Balakina, V.G. Vasiliev, V.I. Mamatyuk Determination of natural dyestuffs in historic textile with molecular spectroscopy and HPLC coupled with diode array and mass-selective detection
Ioannis Karapanagiotis, Christos Karydis, Achilleia Laka, Lemonia Valianou and Costas Panayiotou Identification of dyes on ecclesiastical garments from the Holy Mountain of Athos: the Sakkos of Emperor Ioannis Tsimiskis (?)
Irina Petroviciu, Ina Vanden Berghe, Jan Wouters, Ileana Cretu Yellow and Green Dyes in 15th-17th c. Embroideries from Putna Monastery
Jo Kirby, Maarten van Bommel, Catherine Higgitt, Marjolein Groot Wassink, Ina van den Berghe, Jan Wouters, Sophia Sotiropoulou, Ioannis Karapanagiotis, Lemonia Valianou, Anita Quye, David Peggie, Hamish McNab, Alison Hulme, Cecily Grzywacz, Costanza Miliani, Catia Clementi, Irina Petroviciu Dyeing and dyestuffs revealed: The EU-ARTECH collaborative study of reference materials
Jürg Rageth & Harald Böhmer Solving another rug mystery - Unmasking carpet fakes by dye analyses. “Master-faker” Theodor Tuduc and the carpets of his workshops in Bucharest and Kronstadt
Jürg Rageth and Ina Vanden Berghe Insect Dyes in weavings of the Turkmen of Central Asia, 1500-1900 Part III: A Perfect Red - Insect dyes on tin mordant
Katarzyna Schmidt - Przewozna, Malgorzata Zimniewska Naturally dyed linen fabrics protecting against UV radiation.
Maarten van Bommel, Ella Hendriks and Sjaar van Heugten Vincent’s Wool: Dyestuff and mordant analysis of wool used by Vincent van Gogh for the development of his colour theory
Maria J. Melo, Micaela Sousa, J. S. Seixas de Melo and Fernando Pina To be or not to be an anthocyanin: the reds from Dracaena draco
Marjolein Groot Wassink, Maarten van Bommel, Bettina Niekamp and Jutta van Bloh Dyestuff analysis of the costume of Elector Moritz of Saxony (1521-1553)
Matthijs de Keijzer and Regina Hofmann-de Keijzer The early synthetic organic dyestuffs: patents and international competition
Pauline Guinot and Claude Andary Molecules involved in the dyeing process with flavonoids
Richard Laursen, Svetlana Osipova and Xian Zhang Analysis of Dyes in Some 19th Century Uzbek Suzanis
Rolf Haubrichs The use of Plicopurpura patula pansa hypobranchial extracts for photographical reproduction on silk
Rosemary M. Baker An investigation of a simple identification method for synthetic textile dyes and the value of this information for dating
Sonia Ovarlez, Françoise Giulieri, Anne-Marie Chaze and François Delamare A chemical comprehension of the colour centres in Maya blue green palette. A study of indigo chemisorption in sepiolite
Yoshiko Sasaki, Junko Matsubara, and Ken Sasaki Red dye analysis for historical textiles with multiple spectroscopic methods.

DHA24   2005

Western Rooms Conference Centre : Liverpool

3-4 November 2005


Jenny Balfour-Paul Chasing the lac insect in the Land of the Thunder Dragon
Heba Mansour The 'chemicals-free' dyeing of woollen fabric with Egyptian mallow leaves
Gerald Smith The effects of alginate and zinc ions on reducing the fading of iron-gallotannate dye on Maori textiles
Chris Cooksey The ABC of woad isatans
Zvi Koren Kinetics of dyeings produced from photodebrominated leuco-dibromoindigo solutions
Vincent Daniels The rate of fading of textiles dyed with Tyrian purple
Malvina Papanastasiou The use of high performance liquid chromatography – atmospheric pressure photoionization mass spectrometry for the analysis of Murex trunculus and Purpura haemastoma species
Matthijs de Keijzer The oldest synthetic organic dyestuff group: the history and analysis of the triarylmethane dyes
Maarten van Bommel Identification of early synthetic dyes in embroideries designed by Emile Bernard
Terry Schaeffer Mr. Worth's woollen yarns: A Victorian book of dyed samples with receipts
Cecily Grzywacz Have bed, need a date: LC-MS dye analysis of brocade silk satin upholstery from a lit à la polonaise bed
Ina Vanden Berghe Natural dyes in Flemish tapestries. A study of the dyes, dye degradation profiles and influence of dyes and mordants on the degradation of proteinaceous fibres
Barbara Blyskal Fungal deterioration of woollen textiles dyed with cochineal
François Delamare The role of metallic cations as mordants for cellulose dyeing with alizarin. A numerical approach - III - Bonding strength calculations
Jo Kirby Madder lakes: composition and variability
Ilaria Degano A multi-analytical approach to determine madder lake in archaeological findings
Aki Arponen Alum in Scandinavia
Brian Davies Seeking dyes but finding pigments — on a Welsh mountain
Maarten van Bommel What dyes your textile yellow? A weld study
Richard Laursen Gentle extraction of yellow dye from textile samples and characterization by LC-DAD-MS
Heba Mansour A novel approach to the spicy curry colouration of natural fabrics. Part I: Colouration of wool
Michael Maunder Herschel's blueprint revisited
Cheryl Porter Identification of yellow, red, green and blue organics used in a 15th century English antiphonal: new ideas, old traditions
Annemette Scharff Dyestuff and pigment analyses of the archaeological textiles from Lønne Hede in Denmark – preliminary results.
Yoshiko Sasaki Dye analysis for haori from the “Album of Textile Fragments of Tsujigahana Garment” (17th century) — A restoration project of The Tokugawa Art Museum
Irina Petroviciu Analysis of red dyestuffs in 15th-17th century Byzantine embroideries from Putna Monastery, Romania

DHA24 Posters
Robert Chenciner Cat's pear purple for tattoos and ink. Milk paints for decorated carved wood
Catia Clementi, F.R. Cibin, A. Romani and G. Favaro Accelerated ageing of purpurin on dyed wool: a preliminary investigation
Yuki Kohama and Satoshi Ushida Effect of temperature and pH on the dyeing of indirubin from fresh leaves of indigo plants
Satoshi Ushida, Takako Terada, Tomoko Fukumoto and Yuki Kohama Characteristics of the colorant from sacatinta and its dyeing
Xian Zhang, Ran Boytner and Richard Laursen Identification of a new class of yellow dyes in textiles from an Andean mummy
Sophia Sotiropoulou Analytical investigation strategies on organic materials in cultural heritage objects. Focus on analytical strategies for natural dyestuffs investigations: intercomparison of methodologies and evaluation of results
J. Salomon Transnational access to the Louvre IBA facility through the Eu-ARTECH European programme
Costanze Miliani Transnational access to the mobile laboratory, MOLAB, through the Eu-ARTECH programme: an opportunity for European conservators and scientists

DHA23   2004

Agropolis International : Montpellier

4-5 November 2004



Regina Hoffmann-de Keijzer, Maarten Van Bommel, Ineke Joosten Dyestuff & element analysis on textiles from the prehistoric salt mine of Hallstatt
Zvi Koren The historico-chemical analysis of a very Royal Vase
Laura Rodriguez, Ana Cabrera, Andrés Sanchez The collection of Coptic textiles in the Museo National de Artes Decorativas: the results of the dye analysis and Carbon 14 testing
Valery Golikov, Zoe Zharikova A study of model orcein lacks
Aki Arponen Dyeing lichens in Sweden during the age of utilisation
Paul Woudhuysen An overview of the Kunstbüchlein 1500-1600
Renate Woudhuysen The Engelberg Codex 431- Das Farbbüechlin
Maarten Van Bommel, J.H. Hofenk de Graaff Master dyers to the court of Sicily
Jürg Rageth, Ina Vanden Berghe, Marie-Christine Maquoi, Jan Wouters Insect dyes in weavings of the Turkmen of Central Asia, 1450 - 1990. Part II
R.V. Jashenko, D. Cardon, W. Nowik Porphyrophora insects, a long history. Part I: from the field to the laboratory
Cheryl Porter Arminean cochineal: a study of the methods of collection and uses, tradition and the future
I. Karapanagiotis, S. Sotiropoulo, E. Chryssikopoulou, P. Magiatis , K.S. Andrikopoulos, Y.Chryssoulakis Investigation of Tyrian purple occurring in historical wall paintings of Thera
J. Orska-Gawrys, B. Szostek,I. Surowiec,W. Liszewska, H.Hryszko, M.Trojanowicz Chromatographic investigations of dyes in Polish textiles from 15th &16th centuries.
Irina Petroviciu, Ina Vanden Berghe, J. Wouters, Ileana Cretu Dye analysis of some 15th century byzantine embroideries
Giancarlo Lanterna A correlation between an old recipe (10th) and the analytes found in a decoration of Giotto’s crucifix of Santa Maria Novella
C. Clementi, F.R. Cibin, A. Romani, G. Favaro A spectrophotometric and fluorimetric study of Red Madder in solution and dyed wool
François Delamare, Bernard Monasse Predicting the reactivity of alizarin complexes upon cellulose in aqueous environment
André Verhecken The history of alum, production in Belgium
Ran Boytner, Key Antùnez de Mayolo Indigenous dye standards for ancient Andean textiles: the Antunez de Mayolo collection revisited
Mathijs de Keijzer, Maarten Van Bommel The history and analysis of fluorescein, eosine, erythrosine and some of their derivatives
Daniela Cristea, Gerard Vilarem Maya blue, a source of inspiration for new nanostructured natural pigments
Maria Joao Melo, J. Seixas de Melo, A.P. Moura The importance of being " Leuco "
Gundula Voss, Melanie Schnabel Analysis of historic samples of non-symmetric thioindigoïd dyes
Vincent Daniels The factors of indigo fading according to literature
S.K. Nicholson, P John, P. Lawson, M. Collins New insights into the ecology and functioning of the medieval woad vat
Mark Clarke Iron & tannin in early purple dyes
Brian H. Davies The dyeing of Welsh wool
Riikka Räisänen Past and future of the fungal natural dyes in the Nordic countries

Posters at DHA23

Byung Chan Lee The Color Yellow - One of the five basic colors of the Chosun Dynasty.
Irving Ziderman Vating purple dyes: reappraisal of reduction processes published.
.Irving Ziderman. The change in colour on heating monobromo-indigotin.
A. Wallert, M. van Bommel. Chlothlet colours: Chrozophora tinctoria Juss.?.
Alessia Andreotti, Maria P. Colombini, Giancarlo Lanterna. A chromatographic study on red wood dyes.
Bernard Verhille. Woad in Picardy (XII-XV centuries).
Michael Hovaneissian, Paul Archier, Catherine Viellescazes. High-performance liquid chromatographic study of indigoid and coccid dyes: application to samples from the pharmacy of an ancient hospital.
Naceur Ayed, Rim Marzouki. Nabeul embroidery by natural dyed cotton.
Billy Ward and Chris Cooksey Contemporary dyeing with historic natural materials in Mexico
Beatriz Devia, G. Llabres, J. Wouters, I. Vanden Berghe, J.N. Wauters, L. Angenot, M. Tits. Analysis of the dyes present in coloured cotton of Precolumbian origin (Gossypium barbadense, G. hirsutum),


DHA22   2003

Abegg-Stiftung : Riggisberg

23-24 October 2003



Chris Cooksey and Alan Dronsfield Peter Griess - a critical evaluation of his contribution to azo dye chemistry
Karen Diadick-Casselman and Karen Urbanek Archil and cudbear combinations in 18th and 19th century dye manuals
Cathy Mathias The colour of colonialism in 17th century Newfoundland, Canada
Brian H. Davies William Savage (1770-1843) - a pioneer of colour printing
Katarzyna Schmidt-Przewozna Natural dyestuffs used in Polish folk art
Octaviana Marincas Historic Romanian dyeing techniques and technologies
Lee Byung Chan The grey colour in Buddhist monks' informal clothing - ­Natural dyes as a folklore
Christine Macheboeuf Transport and conditioning of the purple dye: the contribution of the experimental archaeology
Betty Goldberg Japanese blue from the prehistoric time to now
Anna Jolly, Ina Vanden Berghe and Jan Wouters Europe or China? Dyestuff-analyses as a tool for attributions
Jürg Rageth, Ina Vanden Berghe, Jan Wouters and Georges Bonani Insect dyes in weavings of the Turkmen of Central Asia, 1450-1900. Identification by HPLC dye analysis and assignment to specific periods of time by AMS radiocarbon dating
Zvi C. Koren The historico-chemical analysis of a Very Royal Vase
Carmen Alfaro The control of dyes production in the late Roman Empire: the baphium of Baleares
Irina Petroviciu, Jan Wouters, Ina Vanden Berghe and Ileana Cretu Dyes in some 16th and 17th centuries textiles from the Romanian Medieval Art Gallery
Mark Clarke, Ina Vanden Berghe, Jan Wouters, Peggy Frederickx, Ludwien Speleeres and Peter Vandenabeele Comparative studies of 17th-century Netherlandish red lakes in the Oranjezaal, Palace Huis ten Bosch
Ige Verslype, Arie Wallert and Jan Wouters Organic yellows in seventeenth century paintings
Masanori Sato and Yoshiko Sasaki Spectroscopic identification of ancient Japanese dyes
Howell G. M. Edwards Dragon's blood: a potential sourcing database from nondestructive Raman spectroscopic analysis
Robert Fuchs Non-destructive FTIR analysis of dyestuffs and pigments in medieval book paintings
Alessia Andreotti, Ilartia Bonaduce, Maria Perla Colombini and Erika Rabechini The characterization of red-violet organic dyes in ancient samples
Raymond White, Jo Kirby and Catherine L. Higgitt A lake... splendid in its colour of grana: the application of electrospray interface-mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) to kermes lakes
Izabella Surowiec, Witold Nowik and Marek Trojanowicz Optimization of solvent extraction of dyes for their identification in archaeological textiles
Beatriz Devia and Jan Wouters Arrabidaea chica: 3-deoxyanthocyanidins and their degradation products, found in Colombian archaeological textiles of the 10th to the 16th centuries
Alison N. Hulme, Hamish McNab, David A. Peggie and Anita Quye Chemical characterisation of sawwort (Serratula tinctoria) and dyers' chamomile (Anthemis tinctoria) by PDA HPLC and LC ESI MS
Jan Wouters, Marie-Christine Maquoi and Ina Vanden Berghe The dye of Rubia peregrina, II: top-dyeing experiments with indigo
Roy S. Sinclair Mapping colour changes in dyes and pigments due to light fading and ageing
I. Irving Ziderman, Yoshiko Sasaki, Masanori Sato and Ken Sasaki Colour change on heating 6-bromoindigotin: key to understanding purple dyeing with banded dye-murex
Rolf Haubrichs Mollusc purple: a worldwide famous colour
Gundula Voss Analysis and reactions of old samples of thioindigoid dyes

Posters at DHA22



Maria do Carmo Martins Serrano, Fernando Pina and Isabel Ribeiro The mordants multicolour chemistry used in vegetable silk dyeing
B. Gilbert, B. Devia, G. Llabrès and J. Wouters The Arrabidaea chica dyes: tentative of in-situ identification on Colombian archaeological textiles by Raman spectroscopy
Pauline Guinot and Claude Andary Studies on dye plants: creation of a scientific database of raw materials in order to develop the cultivation, extraction and employment of natural dyes in Nord-Pas de Calais region
Pietro Baraldi, Concezio Fagnano, Anna Tinti and Paolo Zannini Study of some pre-Columbian tissues from Peru

DHA21 Avignon 2002

10-12 October 2002



Philip John Indigo reducing bacteria from the medieval woad vat : their interaction with indigo revealed
Anthony Pinto Woad production in Catalonia and Roussillon at the end of the Middle Ages
Chris Cooksey and Alan Dronsfield Edward Schunck : the pioneer dye chemist 
Valery Golikov and Zoe Zharikova A study of model carminic lacks on the basis of cochineal,
protein collagen and mordant salts
B. Monasse and F. Delamare Role of the nature of the metallic cations of the mordant on the colour of
alizarin. An approach by semi-empirical quantic mechanics
Bryan H. Davies Logwood under the microscope
Masanori Sato Spectroscopic sensitivity of natural dyestuffs used for cultural properties
Katarzyna Schmidt-Przewozna Natural dyestuff applied in Polish workshops in XVIIth-XVIIIth century
Liana Listunova Natural dyes in the textiles of the northern coast of Black Sea from the palaeolithic times down to the modern epoch
Maria Joao Seixas de Melo Missal blue : anthocyanins in Nature and Art
Cheryl Porter Purple in manuscripts
Jo Kirby Observations on some aspects of medieval and renaissance lake pigment technology
Maarten van Bommel, Muriel Geldof and Ella Hendriks  Microscopic examination and HPLC-PDA-Fluorescence analysis of organic red pigments in paintings by Van Gogh in the period 1885-1888
Arie Wallert and Maarten van Bommel Sanguis draconis, dragon's blood
Irving Ziderman The biblical dye tekhelet and its use in religious textiles
Zvi Koren New analytical insights into purple dyeings
Mady Elias Non-destructive identification of dyes in works of art by reflectance spectroscopy: the case of purple
Emily Murray and Karen Diadick Casselman Shellfish purple in Ireland and Britain: a re-appraisal
George Taylor Charles Stothard and the Bayeux tapestry
Ulderico Santamaria Study of dyes of Raphael’s tapestry at the Vatican Museum
Anita Quye and Jan Wouters Monitoring of damage in historic tapestries: a newly initiated EU project
Ran Boytner Traditional discontinuity : synthetic perspective of recent ethnographic and archaeological research of Andean dyeing technologies 
Anita Quye and Ester Ferreira  An analytical study of native Scottish flavonoid dye plants
Ghuang-Hui Dai Traditional dyes of China
Barbara Bigler  Traditional dyes of Bhutan
Regina Hofmann-de Keijzer and Maarten R. van Bommel Dye analyses on two textile fragments of Late Antiquity
Marek Trojanowicz Investigation of dyes in Coptic textiles using HPLC with UV/VIS diode array, fluorescent and MS detections
Jan Wouters, Ghislaine Richard, René Breniaux, Dominique Cardon Dye analyses of selected textiles from three Roman sites on the Caravan roads in the Eastern Desert of Egypt
Jenny Balfour-Paul Impressions of the Colour Congress in Ames (Iowa), May 2002
Jenny Balfour-Paul Current research into the international traffic of dyes by the East India Company

Posters at DHA21



Joy Boutrup A survey of the properties and applications of aniline black
Mark Clarke "Half of nothing" - New developments in non-sampling spectroscopy for very small specimens of organic pigments
Robert Chenciner Stradivarius varnish and English cricket balls
Chris Cooksey, Jo Kirby, Alan Dronsfield Chinese green : experimental investigations
Claude Coupry Raman investigations on materials dyed by indigoids
Nonna Garbar, Valery Golikov, Zoé Zharikova, Boris Lakshin, Leonid Mikhailitzin An investigation of chromatic materials
and decoration technologies in coloured 19th century daguerreotypes.
Jennifer Giaccai Chromatographic and spectroscopic differentiation of insect dyes on east asian paintings
Cecily Grzywacz, Ran Boytner, Arabel Fernandez, Annie Kang and Marissa Schliecher Late Horizon Dyeing of the
Chachapoyas: first glimpse at Andean eastern slopes technology
M. Hovaneissian, Catherine Vieillescazes Etude des colorants et des pigments organiques rouges de garance par CLHP
et IRTF ; application au domaine archéologique.
Christina Margariti An investigation into the early synthetic purple dye murexide c.1853-1865
Masako Saito Identification of the 19th century American Antique quilts’ red dyes by HPLC
Jana Sanyova Spectroscopic studies (SIMS, ESI-MS, FTIR) on the structure of anthraquinon-aluminium complexes
Yoshiko Sasaki Dye analyses of braids used for Japanese armours dating from the 14th to 17th cent.
Katarzyna Schmidt-Przewozna In the circle of colour - Natural dyeing of flax, silk and wool
Georg Stark Blue and gold - the English indienne
Isabella Surowiec Investigation of dyes in coptic textiles using HPLC with UV/VIS diode array, fluorescent and MS detections
Rangi Te Kanawa Evaluation of consolidants on dyed black fibre in Maori Textiles
Association Couleur Garance Presentation of the Association
Conservatoire des Ocres et Pigments, Roussillon Presentation of the Conservatory
Association Filière Colorants Naturels Presentation of the Association
Association A.T.E.L.I.E.R. Coloured wool from sheep
Association SALICE Presentation of the Association

Demonstrations at DHA21


 
 
Inge Boesken Kanold The blue purple fermentation vat
Dominique Cardon How orchil saved purple and woad
or
The mystery of poppo solved
John Edmonds Cornelius Drebbel's method of dyeing using tin as a mordant with cochineal, discovered in 1607
Michel Garcia Dyeing into purple with madder 
and
Various purple shades while dyeing silk with woad
Torunn Brigit Sortvik Dyeing with elderberry


DHA20 Amsterdam 2001


Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage

Gabriël Metsustraat 8 1071 EA, Amsterdam

1-2 November 2001


Harald Böhmer Shellfish Purple in Mexico and Morinda dyeing in Indonesia, Sumba island; Digital video films with commentaries by the author
Maarten van Bommel The analysis of dyes with HPLC coupled to photodiode array and fluorescence detection
Chris Cooksey and Alan Dronsfield Lo Kao to Malachite Green: the search for a one step green dye-bath
Brian Davies Dyes (and pigments) as food additives (and adulterants)
Francois Delamare and M. Repoux The characterization of dyes by Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS).
Margriet van Eikema Hommes Fading of indigo in 17th century oil paintings
Regina Hofmann-de Keijzer and Maarten van Bommel TLC and HPLC analysis on red dyes of Indonesian textiles
Ursula Klingelfuss-Schneider Preparing Indigo and Dyeing with Indigo in Japan: Impressions of Autumn 2000
Jiro Komiyama, Mario Suematsu and Shojiro Ogawa Madder and Gromwell dyeing with alum in 6-8th century in Japan Duplicate Mordanting
Zvi Koren The Purple Question Reinvestigated: Just What is Really in That Purple Pigment?
Sharon Little Treatment of 2 historical important textiles - the dye analysis helped to determine the treatments
Masako Saito, Mizuho Uehara and Kazuki Yamazaki Components of the mordanting materials and the elements on the silk fabric treated by them
Masanori Sato Recent advance in the analysis of Japanese ancient dyestuffs
Nobuko Shibayama, Ryohei Yamaoka and Masanori Sato The application of liquid chromatography / mass spectrometry (LC/MS) for the analysis of natural dyes on historic textiles
Gerald Smith, Rangi Te Kanawa, Ian Miller and Glen Fenton Conservation of Cellulosic Textiles Decorated with Iron-Containing Dyes
George Taylor Woodblock Colour Printing in Victorian Britain
André Verhecken A short history of dye analysis
Gundula Voss 5,5'-Dinitro-4,4',7,7'-tetra-alkoxy indigos - chameleons among the indigo dyes
Jan Wouters and Ina Vanden Berge Study of fragments of Chinese fabrics from the Han period
Jan Wouters The future of dye analysis

Posters at DHA20


Beatrice Marino, Jerre van der Horst, Marc Duursma, Nicolas Wyplosz , Jaap J. Boon and Tom Learner Mass spectrometric studies of 20th C organic pigments and their paints
Ran Boytner, Narayan Khandekar and Vickie Cassman Dyes, Gender and Age in the Azapa Valley, Northern Chile
Peggy Fredrickx, P. Vandenabeele, J. Wouters, L. Moens and D. Schryvers The compatibilty of TEM and Raman spectroscopy: application to parchment illustrations
Valery Golikov and Zoya Zharikova Colour lacquers based on protein collagen and cochineal dyes
Jerôme Dupont Chromatic pattern about the practices and uses of the Moroccan saffron, part2
Riikka Räisänen and Paavo Hynninen Simple two-dimensional TLC method for the analysis of anthraquinone pigments
Kerstin Johnnson Black and red dye analyses on cutural textiles from Skåne
Masako Saito and Nana Kasasaku Dye analysis on the Khirbet Qazone Textiles
Yoshiko Sasaki, Masanori Sato and Ken Sasaki Mass Spectrometric Identification of Natural Dyestuffs used for Ancient Textiles
Katarzyna Schmidt-Przewozna The Sources and Properties of Natural Dyestuff Applied in East and West Tradition
Claudio Tonin, R. Roggero and C. Di Nola Studies on an early Ottoman rug, palazzo barberini, rome. Dyestuffs and fibres analysis as a support for conservation, art and history studies
Teresa Heady The use of Indigo dyes as colorants in Thangkas painting of Tibet
Jowita Orska-Gawrys, Katarzyna Urbaniak-Walczak and Marek Trojanowicz Chromatographic Studies on Natural Dyes Used in Coptic Textiles
Maria João Seixas de Melo, Teresa Pacheco, Ferdando Pina, Isabel Ribero and Carmo Serrano Dye analysis of indo-Portugese silk yellow bedspreads of 16th to 17th Century from the collections of MNAA: a preliminary study
G. Chiari, R. Giustetto, J. Druzik, M. Schilling, C. Reyes-Valerio MAYA BLUE structure: some new insides

Demonstrations at DHA20

Inge Boesken-Kanold and John Edmonds The purple dyeing vat
Inge Boesken-Kanold Dyeing or painting parchment with Murex trunculus
Gundula Voss Photodebromination of leuco-dibromoindigo


DHA19 Edinburgh 2000


ROYAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND

CHAMBERS STREET, EDINBURGH EH1 1JF

19-20 October 2000


Jenny Balfour-Paul  Chasing Indigo into the New Millennium 
Gundula Voss  Soluble Indigotins 
Robert Withnall, Ludwig Naegel, Dharmesh Patel, Chris Cooksey  Chemical Studies of Purpura Patula 
Hero Granger-Taylor  The Disappearance of Real Purple in the Early Middle Ages 
Alan Dronsfield and Chris Cooksey  Some Pre-Perkin Synthetic Routes to Purple 
Manasori Sato  Blue and Purple Dyestuffs used for Ancient Textiles 
Anita Quye, Hugh Cheape, John Burnett  Dyes in the Scottish Tartan Trade of the late 18th/early 19th Century 
Jan Wouters and Irina Petroviscou  Dyes in Romanian Religious Embroideries 
Vincent Daniels  Recent Developments in the Chemistry of Black Inks and Dyes Containing Iron 
Brian Davies  Did the Medieval Illuminator know how to prevent Oxidative Damage ? 
Yasuko Noda, Masahiro Kasamatu & Susumu Shimoyama  The Reproduction of a Traditional Votive Figure based on the Non-Destructive Analysis of Colourants 
Peggy Fredrickx  Application of Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) in the Research of Inorganic Colourants in Medieval Stained Glass Windows and Parchment illustrations. 
Dominique Cardon and Claude Andary  The Names of Madder in Historical Literature in Relationship with the Root Contents 
Christoph Krekel  Recipes in Apothecam - Pharmacy Price Lists as a new type of Documentary Source 
Zvi Koren  Where have all the Safflower Reds Gone ? Part 2 
Jo Kirby  Nathaniel Bacon's 'pinke' 
Olga Lantratova  Organic Chromatic Materials in 17th Century Material Portrait of the Russian Patriarch Nikon of the Moscow State History Museum 
Valery Golikov  The Technology of Colour Protein Lacquers 
Elena Phipps  Colours in the Andes: Royal Inka Garments and Colonial Documents of the 16th - 17th Century Peru 
Harald Böhmer  New Dye Research on Palmyra Textiles 
John Fields  Dye Analysis of Khirbat Qazone Textiles at the British Museum

Posters at DHA19

Ester Ferreira The Analysis of Flavonoid Dyed Ancient Textiles by PDA-HPLC and LC-MS
Gerald Smith Iron Sensitised Degradation of Black-Dyed Maori Textiles
Rolf Haubrichs Alexander Dedekind and the Tyrian Purple
Jerome Dupont Experimental Pattern about the Moroccan's Practices and Customs Bound to a specific Dye: Saffron
Satoshi Ushida Dyeing in Purple Shade with Fresh Leaves of Japanese Indigo Plant
Annemette Bruselius Scharff The use of Cyclododecane for the Fixation of Bleeding Dyes in Paper and Textiles: A Critical Evaluation of Application Methods
Peggy Fredrickx Application of Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) in the research of Inorganic Colourants in Medieval Stained Glass Windows and Parchment Illustrations
Beatriz Devia LC-MS as a means for determining the use of Arrabidea Chica in Archaeological Textiles
Masako Saito Identification of Six Natural Red Dyes by HPLC

DHA18 Brussels 1999


ROYAL INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE

JUBELPARK 1 - B-IOOO BRUSSELS - BELGIUM

21-22 October 1999


R. Te Kanawa et al. 
(New Zealand)
Traditional Maori dyes
C. Andary et al. 
(France)
Additional chemical screening on Maori dye plants
D. O'Connor & A. Richards 
(England)
Recognising the right mud. Studies in West China and West Surrey
M. Sato 
(Japan)
Identification of natural dyestuffs used for ancient cultural properties in Japan
S. Shimoyama & Y. Noda 
(Japan)
Non-destructive analysis of Ukiyo-e - traditional Japanese woodblock prints using a portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer
J. Wouters et al. 
(Belgium) 
A microdrilling method for the study of multi-layered structures of paint
J. Balfour- Paul 
(England)
Welcome back - woad
G. Carr 
(England)
Woad - tattooing and the archaeology of rebellion
P. John 
(England)
The scientific basis of medieval indigo production from woad: latest findings
C. Cooksey & A. Dronsfield 
(England)
Adolf von Baeyer and the indigo molecule
G. Voss 
(Germany)
NMR-spectroscopy of leuco-indigotins -preparation of deuterated indigotins
E. Ferreira 
(Scotland) 
Photodegradation products from flavonols: markers for identification of natural yellow dyes in ancient textiles
T. Koussoulou 
(Greece)
Photostabilization of naturally dyed historic silks
V. Golikov 
(Russia)
The classification and techniques of organic chromatic materials based on natural dyes in painting and applied arts
V. Golikov 
(Russia)
The application of organic chromatic materials in Russian icons of the XVth to the XVIIth centuries
I. Pefrovisciu 
(Romania)
Analysis of natural dyes from Romanian 19th -20th centuries ethnographical textiles by DAD-HPLC
M. Vest & J Wouters 
(Denmark; Belgium)
Dyes and pigments on 8th to 18th centuries alum-tawed bookbinding leather
G. Taylor
(England)
Botanical alternatives to alum
K. Diadick 
(Canada)
A lexicon of northern European lichen pigments named according to their botanical ingredients
M. Dallon 
(France)
Presentation of the textile garden of Bassignac-France
J. Bastlaens et al. 
(Belgium)
Dyeplants in the centre of medieval Gent. Archaeological evidence for a well known international cloth industry

DHA17 Greenwich 1998


Held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 26-27 November 1998
 
Dr Jenny Balfour-Paul Dyeing with indigo and mud in Mali and Senegal
Patrick Brenac Plant Dyes : from archaeology to industry
Mr Chris Cooksey Synthesis and properties of 6-bromoindigo
Dr Vincent Daniels Damage caused by black, iron containing dyes
Dr Alan Dronsfield Synthetic alizarin — the dye that changed history
Ester Ferreira Development of analytical techniques for the study of natural yellow dyes in ancient textiles
Prof Dr Robert Fuchs A green corrosion of a blue dyestuff
Dr Valery Golikov Experimental Investigation of Influences of (i) types and concentrations of cations and (ii) cochineal concentrations, pH, anions, cream of tartar and galls.
Dr Oliver Hahn Influence of fungicides and insecticides on colour materials
Rowena Hill Current use of traditional (natural organic) dyes from Papua New Guineau
Professor Philip John Scientific basis of indigo production from woad by medieval techniques
Prof Zvi Koren Where Has All the Red Gone (in Safflower Dyeings)?
Dr Cheryl Porter The colouring of alum-tawed skins on late medieval books
Ms Frances Pritchard Mariano Fortuny (1871-1949): his use of natural dyes
Dr Ken Seddon Dyes and Ancient Papers
Mr Phil Shaw Spectral Ref analysis of plant based CMYK printing ink substitutes
Dr George Taylor Some Dyes and How I got to Know Them
Dr André Verhecken A small experiment in rearing Peruvian cochineal
Dr Jan Wouters The dye of Rubia Peregrina
Nicolas Wyplosz Analysis of natural organic pigments by laser desorption mass spectrometry
Dr I I Ziderman Revival of Tekhelet (Hyacinth-purple) Dyeing with M. trunculus in Israel: Chemical Complications

DHA16 Lyon 1997


Held at the Musee Historique des Tissus, Lyon, 11-12 December 1997
 
Stephan Guillermond Presentation of the textile databank of the Museum
Jan Wouters HPLC analysis of discoloured safflower
Witold Nowik Differentiation and identification of some varieties of red wood used in dyeing by HPLC-DAD
Harald Böhmer and Recep Karadag Dye analyses by derivative UV/Vis Spectrophotometry
Robert Fuchs  The analysis of plant dyes in medieval book illuminations
Doris Oltrogge  Red dyes - the terms and their interpretation in medieval recipes
Andreas Schmidt-Colinet The Palmyra textiles
Philippe Borgard The amphoras of Lipari and the alum trade of Antiquity
Georg Stark Indigo and the 40 robbers - romantic transfigurations of the blueprinters trade in modern society
Phil Shaw New developments in four colour printing using plant colourants
Tijani Karmous and Naceur Ayed Orchil lichens of Tunisia: chromatographic identification and dye elaboration
Naceur Ayed and Abir Alatrache Traditional recipes for natural wool-dyeing in the south of Tunisia
Jo Kirby (to be added)
Anita Quye Tartan dyes of the 18th - early 19th century - a progress report
André Verhecken Dye analysis of Asiatic textiles
Zvi Koren (to be added)
Chris Cooksey and Robert Withnall Tyrian blue
Abir Alatrache and Naceur Ayed The last indigo dyer in Tunisia: technology and quality control
Jenny Balfour-Paul Indigo and mud in Mali and Senegal
Christian Doelsch (to be added)
Marie Schoefer Presentation of the textile conservation and restauration workshop of the museum

DHA15 Manchester 1996


Held at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 14-15 November 1996
 
 
Cheryl Porter The use of Tyrian Purple in manuscripts
Chris Cooksey and Robert Withnall  A study of the precursors to Tyrian Purple
Phil Shaw Vegetable colorants in screen process printing inks
Hero Granger-Taylor The source of early blue dye in the Near East and Mediterranean: woad or indigo?
Zvi Koren A tale of two insects
Bill Cooke and Chris Carr The use of CZE and Mass Spectrometry in the analysis of natural dyestuffs
Ran Boytner and Arie Wallert Evidence of new dyestuffs from northern Peru: lac and madder in the Lambayeque textiles from Pacatnamu
Claudia M D Moresi and JanWouters  HPLC analysis of extracts, dyeings and lakes, prepared with 21 species of the genus Relbunium
Yasuko Noda and Susumo Shimoyama  Non destructive determination of plant dyestuffs used for coloured threads of an ancient Chinese brocade, interwoven with gold and coloured threads, employing a three dimensional fluorescence spectrum technique using fibre optics
Regina Hofmann  The Buhler Collection - Indonesian dyeplants
Deryn O'Connor  An unorthodox use of a 19th century basic dye by some Miao in China
Michèle Dallon Orseille: collecting and dyeing in Auvergne, France
Claude Andary, Dominique Cardon and A Gargadennec  Mediterranean yellow dye-plants of historical importance, Part III
Claude Andary, Dominique Cardon and A Gargadennec  Daphne gnidium: a little known yellow dye-plant
Anita Quye, Jan Wouters and Jaap Boon Fading hopes for flavanoid dye identification?
George Taylor One or two odd items


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