Dyes in History and Archaeology 42

This Special Issue of Heritage contains ten papers presented at the forty-second meeting of Dyes in History and Archaeology, DHA42, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2023. The conference itself was attended by a wide range of archaeologists, historians, scientists, conservators and crafts people and this is reflected in the subject matter of the articles. The topics discussed include the use of colourants by indigenous peoples in different parts of the world on a variety of substrates; the wide range of materials identified on a group of middle-class Japanese kimonos; precious religious textiles from Romania, and recipes used by a late-eighteenth-century Antwerp dyeing company. This gives a flavour of the wide-ranging theme of this Reprint.