Nous avons le plaisir de vous convier au séminaire de VALE le 7 mars 2024 pour entendre Arienne Fennetaux parler de :
« Global perspectives on the materialities of colour in 18th-century textile dyeing »
Résumé:
This paper will look at the materialities of dyeing textile in the 18th century in a global context. Based on research carried out on archival and material sources recording and documenting dyeing techniques in France, Britain and India, it will explore more specifically the complex materialities on which the success of colourful cottons as a global commodity depended. If colour was key to their appeal – and their crucial economic role in a world economy underpinned to a great extent by the trade of « guinea cloth » in Africa – colour was constituted by more than mere pigment and dye. Looking at material sources along with written sources allows for a more complex understanding of colour to encompass the material, parachromatic, qualities of textiles as key constituents of colour.
Bio:
Ariane Fennetaux est professeure à Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. Elle est spécialiste de la culture matérielle du long dix-huitième siècle et en particulier de l’histoire des pratiques vestimentaires et du textile. En 2019, elle a co-écrit avec Barbara Burman The Pocket, A Hidden History of Women’s Lives 1660-1900 (Yale University Press). En 2022, elle a édité avec John Styles, L’Album Holker: échantillons textiles et espionnage industriel au XVIIIe siècle (Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris).