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- Title
Prussian Blue: Its Development as a Colorant and Use in Textiles.
- Authors
Loscalzo, Anita B.
- Abstract
Prussian blue, a cool, greenish-blue mineral color discovered around 1706, became an important artists' pigment in the eighteenth century and a low-cost alternative to indigo for coloring textiles in the first half of the nineteenth century. Its popularity as a colorant for textiles coincided with improved printing and dyeing processes developed in Europe and adopted in the United States. American and European fabrics printed or dyed with Prussian blue appear most frequently in quilts made in the United States between 1830 and the mid-1850s, correlating with the textiles found in women's dresses for everyday use. Scattered remnants appear in pieced quilts made in the United States after the Civil War. This paper traces the development of Prussian blue from a chemical curiosity to a major colorant of textiles manufactured in the nineteenth century, and its subsequent appearance in quilts.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PRUSSIAN blue; MINERAL products; DYES &; dyeing; HISTORY of the textile industry; TEXTILES; QUILTS; QUILTING; UNITED States history; HISTORY; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Uncoverings, 2010, Vol 31, p65
- ISSN
0277-0628
- Publication type
Article