Colouring Textiles Book

	Preface
	Introduction: The "Cultures" of Natural Dyestuffs
Ch. 1	Natural Dyestuffs and the Kingdoms of Nature	1
1	Classifying plants, colours and chemicals: Taxonomies and the art of dyeing	1
2	Natural history, agriculture and the natural dyestuffs	9
3	Colonial vs. indigenous	13
4	Appendix: Natural dyestuffs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries	23
Ch. 2	Sites of Dyeing and Printing Textiles: From the Workshop to the Factory System	43
1	Early workshops and Manufactures Royales: The case of the Gobelins	43
2	Natural dyestuffs and industrial culture: the raise of calico printing	50
Ch. 3	The "Science" of Natural Dyestuffs in the Laboratory	85
1	Scientific perceptions of natural dyestuffs	85
2	The theories of dyeing and bleaching	90
3	Natural dyestuffs in the laboratory	94
4	Dye chemistry and textile chemistry	108
Ch. 4	Circulating Skills in a European Network: The "Republic of Chemist-Dyers"	123
1	Technological journeys and the making of an international network of experts	124
2	The circulation of manuscripts and printed texts	130
3	Organizing dyeing and printing: From informal gatherings to industrial exhibitions	136
Ch. 5	Artisans and Artists in Dyeing and Printing	153
1	Technology, design, and the "art" of dyeing and printing	153
2	James Thomson's "aesthetic luddism" and the copyright of designs	158
3	The public arena of natural dyestuffs and their symbolic significance	161
4	Local taste, national styles and international markets	164
5	Artistic painting, dyeing and printing	168
Ch. 6	Towards the "Artificial": A Long-Standing Technological Change	181
1	Natural dyestuffs and technological change	181
2	The standard account: the scientific triumph of artificiality	182
3	Rethinking the standard account (I): before and after 1856	186
4	Rethinking the standard account (II): resistance and coexistence in the artificial era	190
5	The end of natural dyestuffs	196
	Bibliography	205
	List of Illustrations and Tables	229
	Index	231