A History of Dyes – Links

Description

Publications in the list below published by the Society of Dyers and Colourists can be obtained from

  1. The SDC web shop
  2. Coloration Technology

Coloration Technology is the world’s leading peer-reviewed journal dealing with the application of colour, and the only journal that covers all aspects of coloration technology (including; chemistry, physics, technology, engineering and management).

  • Indigo Egyptian Mummies to Blue Jeans, Jenny Balfour-Paul
  • Colour Making and using Dyes and Pigments, Delamere and Guineau
  • Colour Chemistry, R.M. Christie, Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015
  • Colour Science of Dyes and Pigments, K McLaren, Hilger 1983 & 1986
  • A Colour Chemist’s history of Western art, Helen Skelton, Review of Progress in Coloration, SDC 1999, p43
  • The Story of Colour in Textiles, Susan Kay-Williams, Bloomsbury, 2013
  • A Perfect Red, A Butler Greenfield, Black Swan, 2006
  • Bright Earth, P Ball, Vintage, 2009
  • Perkin Centenary London, Pergamon Press, 1958
  • Physio-chemical aspects of Textile Coloration, SM Burkinshaw, SDC, 2016
  • ‘Sir William Henry Perkin: a review of his life, work and legacy’, I Holme, 2006, Coloration Technology
  • ‘Development in the Chemistry of reactive dyes and their application processes’ DM Lewis, 2014, Coloration Technology
  • An introduction to Textile Coloration, Roger Wardman, SDC/Wiley 2018
  • Chromic Phenomena, P Bamfield, RSC, 2001, on-line 2010
  • ‘Dyes, flies and sunny skies: Photodynamic therapy and neglected tropical diseases’, M Wainwright, 2016, Coloration Technology
  • ‘Therapeutic applications of near infra-red dyes, M Wainwright, 2010, Col. Technology, p115
  • ‘Photodynamic therapy’, Chemistry World, April 2012
  • Comparison of Madder & Weld, Coloration Technology, 2018, Willemen et al
  • In situ fabric coloration with indigo synthesised in flow, Col Tech 2018, Haaf, etal
  • Phillips D. 2016 A lifetime in photochemistry; some ultrafast measurements on singlet states. Proc. R. Soc. A 472: 20160102.

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