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. |