It also seems to be freely available from Google Books!
Trish.
--- On Sun, 5/9/10, Sabine Beckmann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Sabine Beckmann <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Brunello, Art of Dyeing
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Sunday, 5 September, 2010, 11:38
> Hello all,
>
> the book is available for online orders ($ 16 only, it
> seems, at the AATCC
> website), actually, see:
> https://www.aatcc.org/eseries/Source/Orders/index.cfm?FindSpec=09814
>
> Only don't try to order it from outside the US (I suupose
> that goes for
> other countries, too...). I tried from Greece, shipping
> would have been 89
> $!
>
> Alas
>
> Best from Crete
>
> Sabine Beckmann
>
> Sabine Beckmann M.A.
> PhD candidate, Department of History and Archaeology,
> University of Crete
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Beatrice Hopkinson" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 3:58 AM
> Subject: Re: Neolithic woad in S France
>
>
> > Re Allan's note below on 'neolithic woad in S.France'
> other listers may be
> > interested in a great book by Franco Brunello
> 'The Art of Dyeing in the
> > history
> > of Mankind', first published 1968 in Vicenza, Italy,
> and translated into
> > English by Bernard Hickey and published by the
> Phoenix Dye Works in
> > Cleveland Ohio in 1973.
> >
> > It includes a dictionary of the various plants used
> for dying in
> > antiquity and gives a number of Indigo plants used in
> various parts of
> > the world. He gives details of methods from the
> Paleolithic, and
> > particularly the Neolithic (7000 -2000 BC). It
> is beautifully
> > illustrated with manuscript illustrations of
> various plants and their
> > roots, tools used in dyeing, etc. etc.
> >
> > I understand a limited number were printed, and I was
> lucky enough to be
> > given one by a chemist friend. I doubt its
> available in English, even in
> > major libraries, but I'd be happy to check for
> plant names or other
> > information if that would be helpful.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Beatrice
> >
> >
> >
> > Allan Hall
> >
> >>Skip Williams very kindly sent me a copy of the
> paper I was asking about
> >>earlier today (I say this partly to save anyone
> else the trouble); for
> >>those
> >>who also did know it, this is the reference:
> >>
> >>Cotte J. and Cotte C. 1917. Analyses de résidus
> organiques de l'époque
> >>néolithique (Caverne de l'Adaouste). Bulletins et
> Mémoires de la Société
> >>d'anthropologie de Paris, VI° Série. Tome 8
> fascicule 1-2, 66-115.
> >>
> >>... and it's pretty clear that the material
> described cannot all be
> >>neolithic. The paper refers to (if my primitive
> French is accurate)
> >>
> >>- rye (Secale) and oat (Avena) grains
> >>
> >>- fibres, some of which were flax.some Cannabis,
> and some of which were
> >>blue - which led them to suppose woad had been used
> to colour them
> >>
> >>- some red fibres they claim to have been dyed with
> the insect dye kermes
> >>
> >>- and hairs they claim to be from mammoth
> (Mammuthus)
> >>
> >>I'm not sure in the end that there were any remains
> of woad seeds or any
> >>other parts of the plant.
> >>
> >>It's a fascinating example of very early forensic
> archaeobotany - bringing
> >>in some chemistry as well as microscopy of plant
> residues. But it does not
> >>sound as though the dating is good. My next -
> inevitable question - is to
> >>ask whether anyone knows of a critique of this
> report? If it is as dubious
> >>as it seems, it's a great shame that the record of
> woad is propagated so
> >>repeatedly on the web.
> >>
> >>With all good wishes
> >>
> >>Allan
> >>--
> >>Dr Allan Hall, Senior Research Fellow, Department
> of Archaeology,
> >>University
> >>of York, King's Manor, York YO1 7EP, UK
> >>+44 1904 434950 (fax 433902)
> >>mob. 07745 730346
> >>http://www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/academic-staff/allan-hall/
> >>University of York disclaimer:
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> >>
> >>Consider the environment. Please don't print this
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> >>need to.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Beatrice Hopkinson,
> > Hon. Secretary Los Angeles Branch, Oxford University
> Society
> > Board Member, Archaeological Institute of America
> > President, Droitwich Brine Springs and Archaeological
> Trust, U.K
> > Affilliate, Cotsen institute of Archaeology, UCLA
> > ([log in to unmask])
> >
> > 818 766 7780
> >
> >
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