10 August 2024, Zoom 2.00 pm Archived

Monthly Guild Meeting – Speaker Isabella Whitworth

 

Our Speaker for this month is

Isabella Whitworth

Pursuing Purple: Shellfish, Lichen and Mauve
Isabella has spent several years researching the archives of Wood & Bedford / Yorkshire Chemicals, whose initial success was built on the production of orchil in the early nineteenth century.The presentation outlines the story of the Leeds archive and the detective work that revealed how these three historic purples may be linked.

 

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