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Red Bandanas
“Red Bandanas” starts and ends with the idea of the red bandana—an artifact that became important to industry in the mid-19th century, and which today represents a common connection to Turkey-red-colored cottons. I initially imagined an essay that would use the 19th and 20th century reconfigurations of the Turkey red textile coloring process to examine…
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Presentations Before 2018
Publications, lectures and other presentations about Turkey red before 2020 “Dyes and Colors in the 18th Century: Historiographic (and Other) Problems,” Society for the History of Technology annual meeting, Lowell, Mass., (October 1994). SUMMARY: Not available. “Industrializing Color: Novelty and Improvement in the Eighteenth-century Color Industry” Society for the History of Technology annual meeting Detroit,…
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Turkey Red Papers
Turkey Red Papers is an ongoing series of essays and other presentations (2018 – projected 2040) that explores technology, sciences, trade, cultural adaptation, labor relations, colonialism, and fashion in global history. I take an “I Spy” approach to connect those and other topics to Turkey red or the specialized production processes with which it was…
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The Turkey red process
A report about my initial effort to make Turkey red. It was a project for an NEH-funded summer school, “Transcending Boundaries” about the Ottoman Empire. In my own defense, I didn’t yet know I had a brain tumor. The presentation. The slides. I am very impressed by the work Julie H. Wertz did for her…