Category Archives: Uncategorized

Carole Collet, my awesome colleague at Central St Martins, is curating our first event on the 29th June, under the auspices of Maison 0 and thanks to the generous support of the Sustainable Angle. We will be discussing all types of colour, from bacterial beauty to the deep black harvested from air pollution, drawing onContinue reading “Symposium on Regenerative Colour”

Next week, a significant webinar organised by the SDC will be key for all dyers of tomorrow to attend, it is the presentation of the Crutchley Archive  https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4389320097711158029 by Dr Anita Quye, Senior Lecturer in Conservation Science and Head of History of Art at the University of Glasgow. I first heard about the Crutchley archive reading Dominque Cardon’sContinue reading “The Crutchley Archive”

I recently acquired Dominique Cardon’s workbook “Antoine Janot’s colours” and noted how important the use of gallnuts is in most of his recipes, associated with madder or logwood. oak galls seem the key to tempering colour to obtain deeper blacks and also complex yellows, fauves and rich reds. Living near beautiful Greenwich Park with itsContinue reading “Oak galls”