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Front Cover
Madder Red
Copyright Page
Contents
Map of madder in world history
Acknowledgements
Foreword: The gifted eye
1.
Russian dreams of the bearded root
2.
The word and the plant
3. The
5000-year-old root: history in the Old World
4.
The venturers’ legacy
5.
The care of madder from seed to sack
6.
The farmer’s rewards, banks and bankruptcy
7.
The purer the colour: ground krap and garancine
8.
Inside the vat: the hunt for the dyestuff
9. Almond husks, brick dust and ‘super-fine-fine\'
10.
Leonardo’s choice madder lakes
11.
The secret recipes of Turkey red
12.
An Oriental tradition
13.
Fashionable prices
14.
The 19th-century madder boom
15.
Coal tar reds and the death of madder
16. William Morris: the sumptuous
resurrection
17.
The dyer’s grail: alchemical philosophies and folklore
Glossary
Appendices
Notes
Select bibliography
Index