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good morning my name is to be worth and
for a second i would like you to think

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about your laundry

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uh... have you ever watched any red
piece of clothing and found fat all the

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white house and skin not pink

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this means the red dye couldn't stay
bowing to the fabric an effect known as

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bleak

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just over a hundred years ago there was
a dying technique dot in glasgow that

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produced a bread cotton and which did
not usually favorably

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it was called turkey red took fifteen
days to make and used to catch a mobile

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al sheep droppings now tourists and how
blood to produce a billion fast red

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my research covers the period from
eighteen seventy to nineteen hundred

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at times great change in textile dyeing

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and a significant and and cover things
change was going to be lovely the

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northwest at the city

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he was the height of turkey red but also
the beginning of synthetic textile dot s

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since neolithic times humans have been
using guys from plants and animals but

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all this changed eighteen fifty six when
william perkins accidentally developed

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the first invented died

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from a byproduct of coal burned for gas
line

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from moscow turkey burgers exported all
over the world

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for example as bandanas for american
cowboys and saris for indian women

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not much is known about what made turkey
read such a good time so i will be

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attempting to recreate the collar and
determined and chemical terms what its

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characteristics are

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in addition to being historically in
economically significant to glasgow

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turkey read as a benchmark in the
transition between synthetic textile

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dyes and the natural ones that preceded
it

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much resource material for this project
comes from the scottish business archive

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here at the university which has a
collection of synthetic and natural

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textile artifact

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eliza rent their mom feel responsible
for most of the color was for hundreds

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of years extracted from matter

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but in eighteen sixty eight it was
successfully synthesized by two german

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scientists and kirk and of the original
synthetic back

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using a technique called ultra
high-performance liquid chromatography

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i will be able to extract the color from
my purse and pulls of synthetic textiles

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and natural ones and identify the
chemical markers hopefully hoping to

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place the guys in time and as well as
well their province

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this technique

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can then be applied to later synthetic
artifact

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hopefully to help the museum
conservators learn more about the

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origins of their pieces as well as how
best to preserve them

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this can then maybe help us keep our
laundry the same color it was supposed

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to be

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turkey red is a

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long and complicated process by it

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there's a lot of interest in terms of of
how it was done and how we can learn

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more about our cultural heritage here in
glasgow as part of the textile heritage

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of great britain