The Colour of War

In 2013 I started researching Khaki ready for the commemorations of World War 1. I wanted to know how they were producing the colour - was it natural or synthetic? Here's a summary of my research, originally written to be an article for the Journal in 2016, they wanted to…

Turkey Red (Part 1)

The term Turkey Red can be quite confusing - it is often used to describe a colour (particularly in modern parlance) - but it is actually an historical method for producing a very fast red colour on cotton cloth using the dyestuff madder. As a collector of historical dye books…