good morning my name is to be worth and for a second i would like you to think
about your laundry
uh... have you ever watched any red piece of clothing and found fat all the
white house and skin not pink
this means the red dye couldn't stay bowing to the fabric an effect known as
bleak
just over a hundred years ago there was a dying technique dot in glasgow that
produced a bread cotton and which did not usually favorably
it was called turkey red took fifteen days to make and used to catch a mobile
al sheep droppings now tourists and how blood to produce a billion fast red
my research covers the period from eighteen seventy to nineteen hundred
at times great change in textile dyeing
and a significant and and cover things change was going to be lovely the
northwest at the city
he was the height of turkey red but also the beginning of synthetic textile dot s
since neolithic times humans have been using guys from plants and animals but
all this changed eighteen fifty six when william perkins accidentally developed
the first invented died
from a byproduct of coal burned for gas line
from moscow turkey burgers exported all over the world
for example as bandanas for american cowboys and saris for indian women
not much is known about what made turkey read such a good time so i will be
attempting to recreate the collar and determined and chemical terms what its
characteristics are
in addition to being historically in economically significant to glasgow
turkey read as a benchmark in the transition between synthetic textile
dyes and the natural ones that preceded it
much resource material for this project comes from the scottish business archive
here at the university which has a collection of synthetic and natural
textile artifact
eliza rent their mom feel responsible for most of the color was for hundreds
of years extracted from matter
but in eighteen sixty eight it was successfully synthesized by two german
scientists and kirk and of the original synthetic back
using a technique called ultra high-performance liquid chromatography
i will be able to extract the color from my purse and pulls of synthetic textiles
and natural ones and identify the chemical markers hopefully hoping to
place the guys in time and as well as well their province
this technique
can then be applied to later synthetic artifact
hopefully to help the museum conservators learn more about the
origins of their pieces as well as how best to preserve them
this can then maybe help us keep our laundry the same color it was supposed
to be
turkey red is a
long and complicated process by it
there's a lot of interest in terms of of how it was done and how we can learn
more about our cultural heritage here in glasgow as part of the textile heritage
of great britain