CHARISMA workshop and training June 2013
Location: Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland The meeting will consist of two events: • New techniques for the non-invasive investigation of the …
Location: Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland The meeting will consist of two events: • New techniques for the non-invasive investigation of the …
Finally I truly work for a CSI lab-like institute, just like in the series, all of them. The name Cultural Heritage Agency …
Harvesting high quality lichens was no easy job in the 17th and 18th century, these dye species belong often to the genera …
In order to compare published mild extraction techniques for the analysis of natural organic colourants in textiles and paintings, several extractions where …
Traditional extraction methods of paint samples or textile samples for chromatographic analysis are often too aggressive. Often, not only fragile colours (dyestuffs) like carrotenoids (present in for example; annatto seeds and safflower floss) are destroyed during the extraction. Likewise coloured sugars could be lost or even transformed into another new molecule. Preserving these sugars by using a soft extraction technique could be extremely useful as the sugars could provide information about the original botanical or biological source, also provide information about how the dye or pigment was prepared or something about the environment in which the plant or insect/mollusk source existed.
,… Another remarkable component present in some Rubia species and in particular Rubia tinctorum L. (Madder) is lucidin-3-O-primeveroside. This particular component drives off the varied carpet beetle (Anthrenus verbasci L.) called in dutch ‘Museumkever’ because it is considered a pest because it not only scavenges on other dead insects but also hair, feathers, natural fibers and dead skin, it leaves its eggs in tapestries and woolly objects leaving a black corroded areas when it hatches.
This year the 29th ‘Dyes in History and Archeology Meeting‘ was organized by the department of Conservation and Restoration Centre for …
The CHARISMA project will organize next year two workshops devoted to natural organic colorants.
Prior to these workshops an expert meeting was organized at the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN). The expert meeting was dedicated both on dyeing and pigment preparation from natural organic colorants. The main goals of this meeting were; one to serve as a pilot for the workshops to be held next year in Munich and Brussels, two to share knowledge with the European partners working with these subjects and three to create new reference materials, that can be used as study objects.
ARCHLAB Available facility: ICN Data & scientific records
The access offered by the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage regards information stored in documentation files of the ICN library in Amsterdam. Information concerns typical objects and materials which were previously investigated at ICN, as paintings, textiles, furniture, metals, glass, ceramics, leather, plastics, pigments, binding media, varnish, resin, paper, books, inks, etc., all referred to periods varying from pre-history to date.
Typical information consists of historical documentation, analytical data, images, and reports on samples (including cross-sections). The information is partly registered in Dutch, partly in English, partly in German. An online database is available at http://www.icn.nl/bibliotheek/bibliotheekcatalogus.
Primary task of botanical gardens nowadays is not scientific contribution but keeping visitor numbers. The Netherlands has 112 gardens, of those 10 arboretums and 25 independent botanical gardens three zoo-connected botanical gardens and 4 university gardens. A respectable number of gardens for a small country like the Netherlands. ‘A luxury problem if one or two gardens have to close’…