Characterisation of oil and aluminium complex on replica and historical 19th c. Turkey red textiles by non-destructive diffuse reflectance FTIR spectroscopy
- Submitting institution
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University of Glasgow
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-07883
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.saa.2018.05.109
- Title of journal
- Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
- Article number
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- First page
- 267
- Volume
- 204
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 1386-1425
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/163357/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This article arose from Quye’s extensive personal research on historical textiles dyes and their chemical analysis for heritage recreation studies, which enabled her to develop a University of Glasgow-funded ‘Lord Kelvin-Adam Smith’ PhD proposal on nineteenth-century dye recreation, undertaken by Julie Wertz. The proposal was founded specifically on Quye’s chemical research of natural madder and synthetic alizarin dyes in a United Turkey Red Company calculation book held in the Scottish Business Archive at the University of Glasgow, which is the focus of the research in this article.
As Wertz’s first supervisor, Quye initiated the research questions addressed by the article, as well as determining its content, scope and methodologies, and extensively editing it. It is the first explanation of the cellulose-oil-aluminium complex characteristic of madder dyes in historical dyed Turkey Red textiles by modern chemistry, and provides the first demonstrated successful application of non-invasive (non-contact) diffuse reflectance FTIR spectroscopy (DRIFTS) to oil-bound organic pigments on historical textile surfaces. It shows the feasibility and practicality of DRIFTS as a new heritage science technique to advance material studies for surfaces of wide-ranging artefacts with organic colourants in organic binders, notably printed textiles and artworks and photographs where sampling is not permitted or possible. This analytical advancement of DRIFTS also developed from Quye’s ethical analytical heritage science research, co-published as lead author in Ethical Sampling Guidance. Manual, Institute of Conservation, London, 2019.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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