Colouring of Pacific barkcloths: identification of the brown, red and yellow colourants used in the decoration of historic Pacific barkcloths

Colouring of Pacific barkcloths: identification of the brown, red and yellow colourants used in the decoration of historic Pacific barkcloths

Abstract Barkcloth textiles made in the Pacific islands and collected by western explorers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries form part of many museum collections worldwide. Here high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) were used on cloths that were highly c...

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Main Authors: T. H. Flowers, M. J. Smith, J. Brunton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-01-01
Series:Heritage Science
Subjects:
Pacific barkcloth
Pigments
Dyes
HPLC
XRF
Colorants
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40494-018-0243-9

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