A Revolution in Colour

A work with both poetic and practical applications, in its pages learn about the world of colour in textiles before industrialization.Reversing the notion that the wealthy elites preferred to wear black, A Revolution in Colour explores the vibrant textile world of early-modern Europeans when people thought they saw color rather than light.In these pages we feel the textile of early modern consumers, both elite and demotic, come alive through a dazzling array sources. Delight in the colours of the natural world was exceeded only by the technical and material accomplishments in bringing more and more dyes, colours and hues to more and more people.

* Peter McNeil, Professor of Design History, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. *

Maria Hayward is a Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Southampton, UK. She is the author of Stuart Style: Monarchy, Dress and the Scottish Male Elite (2020).

Giorgio Riello is Professor of Early Modern Global History at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and Professor of Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the co-editor (with Anne Gerritsen) of Writing Material Culture History (2014; 2nd Ed. 2021)

Ulinka Rublack is Professor of Early Modern European History at Cambridge University, UK, and author of Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe (2010).