DHA40

DHA 40

Dyes in History & Archaeology

British Museum, London

15-19 November 2021

Final programme - Session summary (scroll down for detailed breakdown of the sessions for each day)
*Please note that all times below are GMT*

Day 1 - 15 Nov

Day 2 - 16 Nov

Day 3 - 17 Nov

Day 4 - 18 Nov

Day 5 - 19 Nov

15:00 – 15:15

Welcome

15:15 – 16:45

Session 1 – Oral presentations

Q&A

Session 3 – Oral presentations

Q&A

Session 5 – Oral presentations

Q&A

Session 7 – Oral presentations

Q&A

Session 9 – Oral presentations

Q&A

16:45 – 17:00

Break

17:00 – 17:20

Session 2 – Quick-fire presentations

Session 4 – Quick-fire presentations

Session 6 – Quick-fire presentations

Session 8 – Quick-fire presentations

Session 10 – Quick-fire presentations

17:20 – 17:30

Break

17:30 – 18:30

Events

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Final programme - Session Breakdown
*Please note that all times below are GMT*

Monday 15th November - Day 1

15:00– 15:05

Welcome

15:05– 15:15

Invited talk: Penelope Walton Rogers

DHA - past, present, future.

Session 1 - Oral Presentations

Chair: Joanne Dyer

15:15 – 15:35

Lucia Burgio, Clare Browne & Maarten van Bommel

The psychedelic world of textile dyes in Spitalfields – the V&A Leman silk.

15:40 – 16:00

Hortense de La Codre, Laurent Servant, Remy Chapoulie & Aurelie Mounier

Indigo in 18th century tapestries – Dyeing, use and degradation.

16:05 – 16:25

Anita Quye, Jenny Balfour Paul & Dominique Cardon

Dyehouse notes from the Crutchley Archive: ‘grain’ dyeing practices with alum and tin ‘spirits’ for red woollen cloth, 1716 to 1728.

16:25 - 16:45

16:45 - 17:00

Q&A

Break

Session 2 - Quick-fire Presentations

Chair: David Peggie

17:00 – 17:05

Margarita Gleba, Malika Kraamer & Ina Vanden Berghe

The treasure chest of colours: dyes of the eighteenth-century West African textiles from the Thomas Clarkson’s chest

17:05 – 17:10

Edith Sandström, Lore Troalen, Helen Wyld, Logan Mackay & Alison Hulme

An optimised small-scale sample preparation workflow for historical dye analysis applied to Scottish and English Renaissance embroidery using UHPLC-PDA.

17:10 – 17:15

Silvana Vasilca, Irina Petroviciu, Daniel Negut, Marian Virgolici, Florin Albu, Andrei Medvedovici

Development of a new mild extraction method for the analysis of natural dyes in Cultural Heritage textiles by LC-DAD-MS.

17:15 – 17:20

Adele Bosi, Alessandro Ciccola, Ilaria Serafini, Valentina Nigro, Paolo Postorino, Gabriele Favero & Roberta Curini

A new on-gel sampling system for identification of lake-pigments in polychromies.

17:20 – 17:30

Break

Events

Chair: David Peggie

17:30 – 18:00

Panel discussion - 40 years of DHA

With Vincent Daniels, Ilaria Degano, Jennifer Poulin and André Verhecken.

18:00 - 18:30

Opening Reception (Breakout Rooms)

Tuesday 16th November - Day 2

15:00 - 15:15

Welcome

Session 3 - Oral Presentations

Chair: Jo Kirby

15:15 – 15:35

Marie-Anne Sarda

Calico-printing in Mulhouse from 1750 to 1914: unpublished dyers’ books.

15:40 – 16:00

Hermine Grigoryan, Armen Sahakyan & Maria J. Melo

Vordan Karmir: An attempt to unravel the mystery of Armenian cochineal recipes for paints and inks used in manuscripts.

16:05 – 16:25

Natalia Ortega Saez, Sophie Kirkpatrick & André Verhecken

Unravelling the origins, technical history and sciences behind the colouring of textiles, Conste des ververs, a Flemish dyeing manuscript from Leuven, 1619-1623.

16:25 - 16:45

16:45 - 17:00

Q&A

Break

Session 4 - Quick-fire Presentations

Chair: Irina Petroviciu

17:00 – 17:05

Anete Karlsone & Liis Luhamaa

Traditional dyeing technologies in Latvia and Estonia.

17:05 – 17:10

Márcia Vieira, Paula Nabais, Graça Videira Lopes & Maria João Melo

Uncovering the secret recipe of Ajuda Songbook’s pink.

17:10 – 17:15

Krista Wright, Riina Rammo, Mervi Pasanen & Jenni Sahramaa

Baltic Sea blue - experiments with woad and lichens.

17:15 – 17:20

Valda Valkovska & Liana Orola

Bark of alder species as a source of natural dyes.

17:20 – 17:30

Break

Events

Chair: Jo Kirby

17:30 – 18:30

Breakout rooms

Wednesday 17th November - Day 3

15:00 - 15:15

Welcome

Session 5 - Oral Presentations

Chair: Maarten van Bommel

15:15 – 15:35

Marc Vermeulen, Alicia McGeachy, Marc Walton & Rebecca Meyers

Investigation of Shellfish Purple in 20th-century Traditional Enredo from Oaxaca, Mexico by Means of Hyperspectral Imaging and MA-XRF.

15:40 – 16:00

Laura Osorio Sunnucks, Joanne Dyer, Lorena Ancona & Luis May

Maya Blue: Painting from the Past in the Present.

16:05 – 16:25

David Buti, Chiara Grazia, Fabien Pottier, Anne Michelin, Christine Andraud, Virginia M. Lladó-Buisán, Davide Domenici, Aldo Romani, Antonio Sgamellotti & Costanza Miliani

Evidence of the use of a dye chemically related to commelinin in Mesoamerican codices.

16:25 - 16:45

16:45 - 17:00

Q&A

Break

Session 6 - Quick-fire Presentations

Chair: Maria João Melo

17:00 – 17:05

Karla Muñoz-Alcocer, Laura Fuster-López & Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual

An insight into cultural and technical choices behind dyes and pigments found in the 17th century polychromed wooden ceiling of Santa Rosa de Lima (Nueva Vizcaya, Mexico).

17:05 – 17:10

Regina Hofmann-de Keijzer, Beatrix Petznek, Ivan Radman-Livaja,
Ines Bogensperger & Andreas G. Heiss

Colour names on lead tags from a Roman cesspit in Carnuntum, Austria.

17:10 – 17:15

Monica Gulmini, Diego Tamburini, Joanne Dyer, Marie Vandenbeusch, Matilde Borla, Debora Angelici, Maurizio Aceto, Cinzia Oliva, Federica Facchetti, Sara Aicardi & Patrizia Davit

Textile wrappings of Egyptian votive animal mummies: A multi-scalar investigation of the colouring materials.

17:15 - 17:30

Break

Events

Chair: Maarten van Bommel

17:30 - 18:30

Breakout rooms

Thursday 18th November - Day 4

15:00 - 15:15

Welcome

Session 7 - Oral Presentations

Chair: Diego Tamburini

15:15 – 15:35

Elena Phipps

The Color Purple in the Andes.

15:40 – 16:00

Marcela Sepúlveda

Dyes on archaeological and historical contexts from the Atacama Desert (South America): A synthesis overview along time.

16:05 – 16:25

Shiyanthi Thavapalan

Ingenious Crafts: Tricks, Tips and Techniques for Dyeing Wool in ancient Mesopotamia (c. 2000-500 BCE).

16:25 - 16:45

16:45 - 17:00

Q&A

Break

Session 8 - Quick-fire Presentations

Chair: Jennifer Poulin

17:00 – 17:05

Ilaria Degano, Francesca Sabatini, Sara Bonifazi, Ruth Ann Armitage &Jocelyn Alcantara-Garcia

Widening the South American dyes database: flavonoid and lichen dyes from Antúnez de Mayolo reference collection and case studies from the Bryn Mawr College collection (Pennsylvania, US).

17:05 – 17:10

Art Ness Proaño Gaibor, Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof, Karina Grömer & Ineke Joosten

Early Iron Age textile dyes from an inhumation burial from North Brabant.

17:10 – 17:15

Eugenia Geddes da Filicaia, David Peggie & Richard Evershed

Using GC-C-IRMS to investigate biological sources of organic colourants in art through compound-specific carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis.

17:15 – 17:20

Ilaria Serafini, Flaminia Vincenti, Kathryn Raeburn McClure, Alessandro Ciccola, Camilla Montesano, Manuel Sergi, Gabriele Favero & Roberta Curini

Advances in analytical methodologies through the application of Dispersive Liquid-Liquid MicroExtraction to characterize dyes in ancient textiles.

17:20 - 17:30

Break

Events

Chair: Joanne Dyer

17:30 - 18:00

Invited guest: Cecilia Pardo Grau

Introduction to and virtual tour of the exhibition, “Peru: a journey in time”

18:00 - 18:30

Panel discussion

With Cecilia Pardo Grau, Nilda Callañaupa & Elena Phipps.

Friday 19th November - Day 5

15:00 - 15:15

Welcome

Session 9 - Oral Presentations

Chair: Yiannis Karapanagiotis

15:15 – 15:35

Francesca Sabatini, Eva Eis, Francesca Magini, Ilaria Degano & Thomas Rickert

Bright orange and scarlet red – disclosing the composition and degradation mechanisms of “combined lake” formulations.

15:40 – 16:00

Alessandro Ciccola, Ilaria Serafini, Flaminia Vincenti, Kathryn Raeburn McClure, Camilla Montesano, Manuel Sergi, Gabriele Favero, Paolo Postorino & Roberta Curini

Discovering the new colours of the XX century: a combined Raman and HPLC-HRMS study of ACNA dyes.

16:05 – 16:25

Diego Tamburini, Joanne Dyer,Monique Pullan, Teresa Heady, Alice Derham, Meejung Kim-Marande, Yu-Ping Luk & Imma Ramos

Bordering on Asian paintings: Dye analysis of textile borders and mountings to complement research on Asian pictorial art.

16:25 - 16:45

16:45 - 17:00

Q&A

Break

Session 10 - Quick-fire Presentations

Chair: Marei Hacke

17:00 – 17:05

Victor J. Chen, Robin Hanson, Robert E. Minto, Nicolas Manicke &Gregory D. Smith