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Vouwo mud dye: A material, microbiological and cultural approach to researching sustainable textile dyes

open access: yesColoration Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Coloration using soil‐based dyes is a fast‐growing subject of enquiry in fibres and textile surface design, with pigments and microbes involved in their production being extensively researched. Dyeing techniques using this rich natural resource have also been integral to long‐standing textile traditions worldwide.
Laurence Douny   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Business forms and business performance in UK manufacturing 1871–81

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We explore which business forms were predominant in the later Victorian economy and why some forms were more effective among large British manufacturing firms during this period. With a dataset of 483 manufacturing firms in 1881 that either employed at least 1000 or had done so a decade earlier, we find that the great majority were ...
James Foreman‐Peck, Leslie Hannah
wiley   +1 more source

Segmentation and gender wage disparities in the early industrial workforce: Insights from Arkwright's Lumford Mill, 1786–1811

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the gender wage gap and wage setting in the early cotton spinning factories of the industrial revolution, with a specific focus on Richard Arkwright's Lumford Mill in Bakewell, Derbyshire. The research links workers from the mill's wage books with parish baptism records to estimate ages and construct age–wage profiles in ...
Alexander Tertzakian
wiley   +1 more source

Deconstructing the Sanders Focus and the Sanders Phase : A Reply to Perttula Regarding the Taxonomy and Significance of the So-called Sanders Focus, or Sanders Phase, Pottery of Northeast Texas and Southeast Oklahoma [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Perttula is correct in pointing out that there are numerical errors in a recently published table of mine. A revised version is presented here as Table 1. Although several of these errors are numerically large and might have caused problems had they gone
Schambach, Frank F.
core   +1 more source

The Lost Large Mammals of Arabia

open access: yesJournal of Biogeography, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim If successful, plans to restore the vegetation of the Arabian Peninsula (AP) as announced by the Middle East and Saudi Green Initiatives will see the greatest increase in vegetation cover since the beginning of the Holocene Humid Phase (HHP), roughly 9–10,000 years ago.
Christopher Clarke, Sultan M. Alsharif
wiley   +1 more source

Chemical characterization via pXRF of Early Iron Age pottery from SW Iberia

open access: yesUISPP Journal, 2019
The main aim of this paper is to present the results of archaeometric analyses of Tartessian pottery recently undertaken in the Lower Guadalquivir region (western Andalusia, Spain).
Michał Krueger, Dirk Brandherm
doaj   +1 more source

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