Conference – Dyes in History and Archaeology 2022
The DHA-conference was a hybrid event arranged by the Swedish National Heritage Board on site in Visby, in October, 2022. Participants from all over the world enjoyed the workshops and the guided tours on site as well as the lectures offered both on site and digitally.
Dyes in History and Archaeology (DHA) is an annual conference which attracts conservators, curators, (technical) art historians, craftspeople, artists, independent scholars, scientists and academics from museums, universities, research centres and other public or private institutions. The event focuses on the discussion of historical colourants. This was DHA’s 41st conference and was arranged for the first time in Scandinavia. The topics included the history, production and application of dyes and organic pigments, as well as their analytical characterization and identification.
DHA41 was organised with a financial grant from the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation for International Scientific Cooperation and with support from the Swedish National Heritage Board.
Abstracts, posters and publication
The book of abstracts is published in DiVA, the peer-reviewed articles are published in a MDPI Heritage special issue and the posters are available for download on this website.
Peer-reviewed articles:
The Special Issue ”Dyes in History and Archaeology 41” is published at MDPI Heritage.
YouTube watch a short movie from the conference in Visby.
Book of abstracts for download (including the presented posters):
Dyes in History and Archaeology 2022: abstract: 11-13 October, Visby: Riksantikvarieämbetet, 2022. s. 79
Posters are also available below:
- Poster: Liselotte Öhrling, Ing-Marie Trägårdh, Marei Hacke, Magnus Mårtensson, Sara Norrehed, Ina Vanden Berghe and Alexia Coudray: Colours in the collection of medieval archaeological textiles at Lödöse museum
- Poster: Silvana Vasilca, Irina Petroviciu, Mihalis Cutrubinis, Marian Virgolici, Valentin Moise and Andrei Medvedovici : Gamma radiation effect on early synthetic dyes
- Poster: Kathryn Raeburn McClure, Anita Quye, David J. France: James Morton and the anthraquinoid vat dyes: a revolution in synthetic dye fastness
- Poster: Irene Bilbao Zubiri and Anne-Laure Carré: Giving a new status to a dyes collection : a contribution to the Chromotope project
- Poster: Dominique Cardon, Paula Nabais, Patrick Brenac and Isabelle Castel-Brenac: Blue and Yellow – A colourful approach to the dialectic between written sources and experimental archaeology
- Poster: Adrienn Görgényi Andersdotter, Lotta Rahme: Fish skin dyeing tests with woad (Isatis tinctoria) and Japanese indigo (Persicaria tinctoria)
- Poster: Keith Ramig, Olga Lavinda, Timone Eskaros, Tazrian Islam, Sasan Karimi and Christopher Cooksey: Probing the thermochromicity of fabric dyed with 6-bromoindigo and 6,6’-dibromoindigo, components of Tyrian purple
- Poster: Athina Vasileiaodu, Ioannis Sampsonidisa, Stavros Kalogiannis, Georgios Theodoridis, Ioannis Karapanagiotis and Anastasia Zotoua: Degradation products and colouring components of shellfish purple identified by UHPLC-MS/MS
- Poster: Vincent Cattersel, Natalia Ortega Saez, Emile Van Binnebeke, Geert Van der Snickt, Nele Vanassche: ‘La peinture en bois’ – Reconstructing a colourful past based on the faded present
- Poster: Kateřina Hricková, Radka Šefců, Václava Antušková, Karolína Hricková: Database of artistic materials of National Gallery Prague
- Poster: Valda Valkovska: Dyes of traditional clothing of Suiti in the 19th-20th century
Past and upcoming conferences
The first conference was held in 1982 and is held every year, see a list of past meetings here. The 40th annual meeting was hosted by the British Museum, London, 2021. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic it was organised as an online event.
Read more about the upcoming conferences (dyesinhistoryandarchaeology.com)
