Notice catalographique « The dyer's handbook : memoirs on dyeing »

A new life for a mysterious manuscript

Memoirs on dyeing - English translation of the original French text

Polyphony on colours

• Translation of Mémoires de teinture : voyage dans le temps chez un maître des couleurs (TP 897 C3714 2013).
• Translation into English of an anonymous French manuscript held in a private collection consisting of four essays produced around 1763 possibly written by Paul Gout of the Royal Manufactures of Bize, France in the Languedoc Region, originally consisting of about 100 pages in which were held swaths of sample dyed woolen cloth and including recipes for their coloring. The work has been published in French under the title Mémoires de teinture.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

• Dyes and dyeing
• Dyes and dyeing - Textile fibers
• Dyes and dyeing - early works to 1800
• Teinture
• Teinture - Fibres textiles
• Teinture - Ouvrages avant 1800