30 juillet 2013
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Elaine Leong, « Dyeing Wool in Seventeenth-Century Germany », The Recipes Project, ID : 10.58079/tcns
by Karin Leonhard (Research Scholar, MPIWG) and David Brafman (Curator for Rare Books, Getty Research Institute) The Getty Research Institute harbors an artisan's recipe book for dyeing wool, ca. 1680, with supplementary papers that date from 1653-1762. The book contains 135 leaves, it is illustrated, and it is written in German. What is particularly interesting is its internal structure: this book is arranged alphabetically by the names of colors, and it contains the original samples of dye...