People are Dyeing

To provide the beauty of crochet, knitting and Nålbinding, sewing, felting and spinning, people are dyeing quite often.  They also bleach fabric.

How do you stitch the truth together?

What have you discovered about the history of clothing and textiles, and of leather and fur and other materials?

What do you know about dye, whether it is natural dye or the synthetic sort?

What does the word synthetic mean to you?

What does the word organic mean to you? 

What does the word Anthropocene mean to you?

How do you interpret climate history, with or without comparing it with the history of fashion, including religious and political fashions?

What is your acquaintance with chemistry and its history? 

What do you know about the role of chemistry as the central science?

Perhaps you would rather think of the world in terms of beauty, comfort and deliciousness rather than in terms of organic chemistry and molecular physics.

The perspectives people take certainly influence their perceptions, their attitudes and their decisions.

What is your acquaintance with coal tar?

What is your acquaintance with molecular gastronomy?

What is your acquaintance with the philosophy of chemistry and the philosophy of physics?

How clearly do you distinguish between political science, political pseudoscience and political reasoning?

What do you know about bitumen/asphalt?

What do you know about cement and plaster?

What do you know about enamel and paint?

What do you know about mordants?

What do you know about adulteration?

What do you know about pigments?

What do you know about pollution?

What is your acquaintance with urine, urea, uric acid and creatinine? 

What do you know about soaps, detergents and adhesives/glues?

What is your acquaintance with corrosive substances?

What is your acquaintance with corrosive opinions?

Perhaps you know something about the history of bleachfields.

Perhaps you know something about the history of fulling.

Perhaps you know something about tentergrounds and tenterhooks.

If you believe yourself to be knowledgeable about the history of industries, and possibly even the history of science, 

Perhaps you know something about colour fastness and light fastness.

Perhaps you know something about the history of lant.

Perhaps you are acquainted with the Latin term fullo. 

Perhaps you are acquainted with the history of weaving.

You may or may not be particularly familiar with various aspects of the textile industry, the laundry industry and/or the clothing industry.

You may or may not be particularly familiar with various aspects of the chemical industry, the plastics industry, the transport industry, the petrochemical industry, the petroleum industry, the history of technology, the coal industry, the history of water supplies and the history of cosmetics.

There is much to learn from history and science and through various other appropriately careful inspections of data, documents, chemical substances, important procedures and problematic situations.

What have you discovered about cover-ups?

What is your acquaintance with chlorine, ammonia, aluminium, asbestos, tobacco and fossil fuels?

How do you assess hazards, and from whose point of view?

What do you know about strategic bankruptcy, insolvency and the rise of phoenix companies?

How do you assess material culture?

How do you assess women's suffrage?

How do you assess the revolutions of 1830?

How do you assess the beginnings of anthropogenic global warming? 

How do you assess changes in fashion?

How do you assess changes in etiquette?

Perhaps you know something about the history of the pulp and paper industry.

Perhaps you know something about the history of printing and ink.

Perhaps you know something about industrial waste.

Perhaps you know something about hair colouring.

Perhaps you know something about oil shale, shale oil and oil sands.

Perhaps you know something about textile printing, possibly including woodblock printing and roller printing.

Perhaps you know something about satire.

Do you ever wear purple?

Do you ever wear perfume?

Do you always carefully consider the health effects and environmental effects of your decisions?

You may or may not know much about medicine and/or mosaics and/or the purpose of a memento mori and/or the history of Pompeii and/or the preservation of artifacts, though you may reflect on relevant images.

You may or may not know much about Tyrian purple, kermes dye and cochineal.

You may or may not know much about cosmetics.

You may or may not know much about the history of the pin, the sewing needle, the needle threader, and even the thimble.

You may or may not know much about the history of needle cases, decorative boxes, treens and toilet services.

You may or may not know much about the history of the Silk Road and other trade routes.

You may or may not know much about sewing terms and dyeing terms.

You may or may not know much about gunpowder, dynamite and other explosives.

You may or may not know much about steam engines, steam turbines, internal combustion engines, and industrialisation. 

Perhaps you regard yourself as an observant inspector of factories and well-informed member of committees, like Lucy Deane Streatfeild.

As industrial contributions began rising in 1830, the effects have been compounding year by year, particularly from the 1960s to the present.

Who have you been alerting to the problem, and how?

Perhaps you prefer to take a Sturm und Drang approach or a Romanticist and/or Medievalist one or another approach entirely.

You may or may not know much about Counter-Enlightenment influences.

You may or may not know much about carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere.

What is your acquaintance with Swan Upping?

What is your acquaintance with ethnobiology, ethnobotany, ethnolichenology and ecosystem services?

What is your acquaintance with biological mutualism?

What is your acquaintance with dyer's woad, dyers greenweed, dyer's rocket and rose madder?