While I did enjoy parts of this, it really wasn't what I was expecting from the book, and I think I'd have been perfectly happy with a bit more focus on the colors and dyes themselves.
Very substantial portions of each chapter are about the author traveling to India or Lebanon or Mexico or China or other places to physically visit places important in the history of different colors' dyestuffs. Perhaps a major caution or just fyi that I'd like to add to this book, though, which keeps me from wanting to rate it higher is that not all of the book is quite what I'd expected-I'd gone into the book expecting information on the history of colors, which there definitely was, but the book was really more properly half history, half travelogue. The purple chapter, right at the end of the book, was especially interesting to me because I'd known that snails were used for Roman dyes for a long time, and I really enjoyed learning about the process here. I think my favorite chapters were probably green, indigo (which has also always been one of my favorite materials to dye with), and purple. It's arranged thematically by color, which chapters for all the colors of the rainbow as well as brown, black, and white. I definitely learned quite a bit about the history of dyes and similar materials from this book. Victoria Finlay and collections to check out. Show More appreciated them then and having read a book several years ago about the history of (in particular) the red cochineal dye, I was really excited when I learned about this book a while ago. Right here, we have countless book Color A Natural History Of The Palette.
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