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9780700712595

Madder Red: A History of Luxury and Trade

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  • ISBN13:

    9780700712595

  • ISBN10:

    0700712593

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-06-22
  • Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

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Table of Contents

Map of madder in world history
8(10)
Acknowledgements 10(1)
Foreword: The gifted eye 11(8)
Russian dreams of the bearded root
19(2)
The word and the plant
21(7)
The 5000-year-old root: history in the Old World
28(25)
The venturers' legacy
53(31)
The care of madder from seed to sack
84(23)
The farmer's rewards, banks and bankruptcy
107(13)
The purer the colour: ground krap and garancine
120(13)
Inside the vat: the hunt for the dyestuff
133(8)
Almond husks, brick dust and `super-fine-fine'
141(7)
Leonardo's choice madder lakes
148(26)
The secret recipes of Turkey red
174(31)
An Oriental tradition
205(27)
Fashionable prices
232(14)
The 19th-century madder boom
246(12)
Coal tar reds and the death of madder
258(10)
William Morris: the sumptuous resurrection
268(11)
The dyer's grail: alchemical philosophies and folklore
279(20)
Glossary 299(7)
Appendices 306(45)
Notes 351(14)
Select Bibliography 365(10)
Index 375

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