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Check out India Street Bazaar at the Tramway in Glasgow, open 10 June-24 July 2016 for a fantastic exhibition on handmade Indian textiles and Turkey red! I contributed a wee bit on TR for the website and I can’t wait to see the exhibit in person.
My interview with Marie McCahery of BCB Radio Bradford at the North Parade After Dark event during the 2015 British Science Festival. Thanks to the BCB Radio team and The British Science Association for the excellent opportunity!
Julie Wertz is the 2015 Jacob Bronowski Award Lecture for science and the arts. She spoke to BSA Media Fellow Dr Jo Barstow about her love of textiles and why she's trying to re-create a 200 year-old dye.
My interview with Dr Jo Barstow, one of the 2015 British Science Festival Media Fellows.
Lots of exciting things (and excited people like me!) at the 2015 British Science Festival, so get ready!
University of Glasgow College of Arts Industry Engagement
http://www.keblog.arts.gla.ac.uk/2015/04/14/dress-textiles-value-ke-networks/
University of Glasgow 2015 3-Minute Thesis Competition, College of Arts
What's your background in heritage science? I studied chemistry as an undergraduate and especially enjoyed the analytical aspect of the field. I’ve always loved working with textiles, so combining ...
What happens when I put the draft of a chapter into wordle.net. Great way to see which words are being used!
Heritage Lottery Fund boost for Archive Services' textile industry collections
Great news for the University of Glasgow's Archive Services, the Scottish Maritime Museum, and Scottish textile history! Press release from the University here, a BBC article, and a statement from Archive Services.
Dr Anita Quye, Centre for Textile Conservation and Technical Art History at the University of Glasgow and Klaus Staubermann, National Museums of Scotland, said: “This is excellent news for research projects like ReCREATE, funded by the Royal Society of Scotland to bring new historical perspectives on the art and science of Scottish textile-making. These fantastic archives at the University of Glasgow are crucial for deepening and enriching our appreciation of Scotland’s magnificent textile heritage.”
Harvest Festival event at the Concrete Gardens
Last weekend we participated in the Harvest Festival at the Concrete Gardens in Possilpark as part of the Glasgow Science Festival. We talked about our research, dyes and dyeing, and the importance of textiles in our lives. Hopefully with this experience we can develop a portable workshop and visitors can do some dyeing of their own while they learn about textiles!
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Reading old texts: Florid writing and rampant commas
Another tedious aspect in the reading of historical texts is the mining, for meaning, through the copious layers of overly descriptive verboseness, with which writers conveyed what were, often, fairly straightforward concepts (see what I did there?!). [Translation: A lot of reading for simple ideas.]
From W.H. Perkin, Alizarin and Allied Colouring Matters, and their Production from Coal Tar, 1879.
The pressed anthracene was at first purified, as above, with coal-tar naphtha, and then distilled, but it was found to be still far from pure; this was a great drawback, because, when converting it into anthraquinone, by oxidation with potassic bichromate and sulphuric acid, in the way we then conducted the process, a large quantity of the oxidising mixture was used up on the worthless impurities as well as on the anthracene, thus adding greatly to the expensive of the anthraquinone, and not only so, but rendering the purification of that substance more troublesome.
[Translation: Our first method of anthracene purification wasn't very effective and we wasted a lot of reagent in the next step on said impurities which then had to be removed anyway.]
Given that the texts were written originally by hand and then manually typeset, it is remarkable how lengthy texts could become and is certainly an indicator of what people found to be entertaining (i.e. writing and reading really long texts) at the time.
Reading old texts: Run-on sentences
One of the more remarkable things I've found about old texts is the inconsistency of punctuation. I know that punctuation in English wasn't standardised until relatively recently in comparison to the invention of the printing press (this holds true in writing as well, if one looks at medieval texts). Nevertheless, I am always astonished at the lengths of sentences pre-punctuation standardization authors could achieve with the use of semi-colons, commas, and colons. The original of this piece also has the historic 'long s', which looks like a misprinted 'f' and reads like a heavy lisp. My example is a 160-word sentence, and I won't even get into the capitalization or length of the article title:
From Haussmann, Observations on Maddering; together with a simple and certain Process for obtaining, with great Beauty and Fixity, that Colour known under the Name of Turkey or Adrianople Red, 1802.
They must be dried under shelter from rain in summer, and in a warm place in winter, and be left in that state for twenty-four hours: they must then be washed in very pure running water, and be again dried; after which they are to be immersed in an alkaline ley, pressed and dried a second time in the same manner as the first, taking care, however, to recommence the immersion in the ley with those skains which have been last in the oily mixture, because the first never fail to carry away a larger portion than the last: it will be proper also to consume the mixture each time, that it may not have leisure to attract the carbonic acid with which the lower region of the atmosphere is always charged, especially in manufacturoies: for the alkali, by passing to the state of carbonate, suffers the alumine to be precipitated, and loses the property of mixing with the oil.
Postgraduate Diary article on my project from The Independent, May 2014.
Hunterian Insight Talk today in conjunction with last year's project for Hunterian Associates Program. Great turnout!
In 1692 an artist known only as "A. Boogert" sat down to write a book in Dutch about mixing watercolors. Not only would he begin the book with a bit about the use of color in painting, but would go on to explain how to create certain hues and change the tone by adding one, two,
Dyes in History and Archaeology 33
We are now accepting submissions for Dyes in History and Archaeology 33, which will be taking place at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK October 30th - November 1st, 2014. The conference is organised by the Centre for Textile Conservation and Technical Art History and will include an array of social events. DHA meetings are dedicated to the interdisciplinary exchange of the latest research in the history, production, application, characterisation, and preservation of natural and synthetic dyes and organic pigments relevant to cultural heritage and the arts worldwide. The meetings aim to attract scholars, students, heritage professionals and independent researchers across the humanities, sciences, arts, history, ethnography and conservation from local, national and international universities, research institutions and heritage organisations. Presentations at DHA 33 will be given as oral papers (20 minutes) and printed posters (A0 portrait). Emphasis is on interdisciplinary and applied research for understanding and interpreting dyes in an archaeological and historical cultural context. Papers and posters will be selected from submitted written abstracts (500 words maximum) by a peer-review panel. Abstracts must be received by Friday 30th May, 2014. Please refer to further instructions in the template on our website regarding format. Please send all inquiries to [email protected]. Website and Registration Regards, DHA 33 Organising Committee Centre for Textile Conservation and Technical Art History School of Culture and Creative Arts University of Glasgow Glasgow, UK
