Dye Collection

In the red dye house, 1868-1892. Creator: Anthon van Rappard
In the red dye house, 1868-1892. Dyeing of yarn

Intérieur d'un atelier de teinture, aux Gobelins, c1760. Creator: Ecole Francaise
Interieur d'un atelier de teinture, aux Gobelins, c1760

Jingoji Sutra, 12th century. Creator: Unknown
Jingoji Sutra, 12th century

Gemini VI recovery, Atlantic Ocean, December 16, 1965. Creator: NASA
Gemini VI recovery, Atlantic Ocean, December 16, 1965. A helicopter hovers over the Gemini VI spacecraft after it splashed down 12 miles from the aircraft carrier USS Wasp in the western Atlantic

Cooper and Conrad await recovery relicopter, 1965. Creator: NASA
Cooper and Conrad await recovery relicopter, 1965. Astronauts L. Gordon Cooper Jr. and Charles " Pete" Conrad Jr. exit their spacecraft after splashdown of the Gemini 5 spacecraft

Gemini VIII splashdown, Armstrong and Scott with hatches open, March 16, 1966. Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and David R. Scott sit with their spacecraft while awaiting the arrival of the recovery

Navy frogmen swim to spacecraft to begin retrieval, Pacific Ocean, 1963. Creator: NASA
Navy frogmen swim to spacecraft to begin retrieval, Pacific Ocean, 1963. U.S. Navy frogman, deployed from the hovering helicopter, swims next to the spacecraft and makes contact with astronaut L

Robe, Japan, late Edo period (1789-1868) / Meiji period (1868-1912), 19th century
Robe, Japan, late Edo period (1789-1868)/ Meiji period (1868-1912), 19th century

Attus Amip (Mans Coat), Japan, late Edo period (1789-1868), c. 1860. Creator: Unknown
Attus Amip (Mans Coat), Japan, late Edo period (1789-1868), c. 1860. Fibre made from the inner bark of the ohyo tree, a member of the elm family

Part of an inlay: a wing form. Cut with a die, Ptolemaic Dynasty or Roman Period, 305 BCE-14 CE

Indigo Vats, 1850s. Creator: Captain R. B. Hill
Indigo Vats, 1850s

Italian Cypress and Spanish Broom, from Hortus Eystettensis, by Basil Besler (1561-1629), pub
I Cupressus arbor; Italian cypress originally from Asia, brought by the Phoenicians and now considered native to Italy; II Spartium Hispanicum; usually more bare-stemmed than shown here; plant which

Crack detection on steel bars at J Beardshaw & Sons, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. A dye penetrant is poured onto the steel

Marcellin Berthelot, French organic chemist and politician, 1903. Pierre-Eugene Marcellin Berthelot (1827-1907) worked on explosives and dyes

Advert for Twink dye, 1922. A print from The Sphere, 27th November 1922

Dyer, 16th century (1849). Artist: Jost Amman
Dyer, 16th century (1849). A 19th century version based on an original 16th century wood engraving. From Le Moyen Age et la Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix, Ferdinand Sere and A Rivaud

August Wilhelm von Hofmann, 19th century German organic chemist, (1900). Through his work on coal-tar derivatives, Hofmann (1818-1892)

Preparing indigo, Santo Domingo, 1873. From Santo Domingo: past and present, with a glance at Hayti, by Samuel Hazard, 1873

Pierre Eugene Marcellin Berthelot, French organic chemist and politician, c1885. Artist: Pierre Petit
Pierre Eugene Marcellin Berthelot French organic chemist and politician, c1885. Berthelot (1827-1907) worked on explosives and dyes

August Wilhelm Hofmann, German organic chemist, 1854-1860. Through his work on coal-tar derivatives, Hofmann (1818-1892) in 1858 obtained aniline dye magenta or fuschine

Cochineal and lac insects, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Cochineal and lac insects, c1850. Varnish and scarlet dye are derived from the lac insect native to parts of Asia, and a red colour from the cochineal insect of South America

Producing indigo dye with slave labour: West Indies or Central America, 1725. Indigo tinctoria is cut, tied in bundles, steeped in water and fermented in the centre tank

Charles Plumier, French friar, botanist and botanical explorer, 1762. Plumier (1646-1702) was born in Marseilles. Appointed royal botanist by Louis XIV in 1693

Marking sheep after shearing with Lanolin dye, Lake District, c1960. Artist: CM Dixon
Marking sheep after shearing with Lanolin dye, Lake District, c1960. Huge numbers of sheep are reared on the hill farms and moorlands of Cumbria, principally for their meat (lamb and mutton)

Murex, c1890. The mollusc which inhabited this shell was the source of Tyrian Purple dye

Dyers immersing bolt of cloth in vat of dye placed over a fire, 15th century. At the bottom right is a bundle of sticks (faggots) ready to be added to the fire. From the British Museum

Spectroscopy. A spectrosopist observing (top). At the bottom, from left to right; absorption spectra of indigo, chromic chloride and magenta

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