Dyes in History and Archaeology 35/36: Including Papers Presented at the 35th Meeting Held at Pisa, Italy, 6-8 October 2016 and the 36th Meeting at Hampton Court, UK, 26-28 October 2017

Papers presented at the 35th and 36th meetings of Dyes in History and Archaeology held in Pisa (2016) and Hampton Court (2017). Sources of yellow natural dyes provide a leitmotif running through the papers contained in this volume. Sawwort is the source of a yellow dye that played an important part in textile dyeing in 15th-century Europe and was traded by the Florentine dye company of Francesco di Giuliano Salviati. It is less well known than weld, also traded by the Salviati company and used all over Europe as well as in Iran for dyeing Persian carpets. Some sources of yellow dye also have a pharmaceutical role: chamomile is one such, present among the named boxes of 'simples' housed at the Spezieria di Santa Maria della Scala, Rome.