List of Illustrations Editors' Introduction 1. The Arrival of the Crimson Dyeing Technique in Italy in the Late Fourteenth Century Luca Molà (University of Warwick, UK) 2. The Woad We Have Lost? The Changing Supply Networks of Tuscan dye Businesses between the Local and the Global, 1450-1650 Stephanie Lietzel (Harvard University, USA) 3. Crimson Dyes and the Law in Renaissance Italy Lisa Monnas and Jo Kirby (both Independent Scholars, UK) 4. The Limits of Global Trade: Cochineal and Indigo in the Pre-modern Period Giorgio Riello (European University Institute, Italy) 5. A Dyeing Art: Reconstructing Rosetti's Plictho Sophie Pitman (Aalto University, Finland) 6. The Colourful Language of Dyeing Black Sven Dupré (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) and Natalia Ortegasaez (Antwerp, The Netherlands) 7. Re-Colouring Renaissance Dress: Matthäus Schwarz of Augsburg Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge University, UK) 8.

Creating colour in the Stuart Royal Wardrobes, 1566-1701 Maria Hayward (University of Southampton, UK) 9. Innovations and Imitations of Fashion: Colour and Novelty in Early Modern Italian Dress Paula Hohti Erichsen (Aalto University, Finland) 10. French Indigo Trade from Marseille to Levant Marguerite Martin (IDHES - Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, France) 11. Dyes and Dyeing in the Business of Indienne in the Eighteenth Century Kim Siebenhüner (Historisches Institut, Jena, Germany) 12. Identifying Different Pathways to Historical Colour for Scientific Analysis Anita Quye (University of Glasgow, UK) Conclusion: The Cost of Colour: Colonial Networks and Embodied Histories Beverly Lemire (University of Alberta, Canada) Index.