Antoine Janot’s 85 colours

Here is the book Antoine Janot's 85 colours! Book in French & English languages.
GREEN‘ING is glad to have contributed to this new publication of Dominique Cardon and Iris Brémaud on these "Colours from the past", created in our area.
Antoine Janot, even if working a few km, did establish the first dyehouse in our city - Bedarieux, that became a few years later, an important textile center of the network of Manufactures du Languedoc. As a new link between the history and the future of natural dyes, we are glad to have contributed and to offer you this publication that makes sens.
Antoine Janot's 85 colours thus represents a contribution to the history of colours, an original source of inspiration, a valuable tool for experimentation, as well as demonstrations of production and quality control practices in full accordance with sustainable textiles! 

This book explores and places in their technological, economic, and cultural context all the writings and samples of dyed wool cloth attributable to Antoine Janot, a master dyer in Languedoc in the first half of the 18th century. His business handled the entire production of his town's drapers, who exported thousands of pieces of cloth each year to the Levant and the vast Ottoman Empire.

The in-depth study of his processes and dyed samples using a multidisciplinary approach has made possible to present each of his colors in a uniform scheme, facilitating reproduction experiments at different scales.
The use of colorimetry and the publication of the chromatic characteristics of the samples according to the international CIELAB system allow for the verification of the results of these tests.

A series of experimental archaeology workshops highlights the relevance of these processes and the quality of the colors produced (contact D. Cardon, S. Rozier, or ourselves, and we will forward them).

See also : Paul Gout's 157 colours, another local dyer honored by D. Cardon and Iris Bremaud, who reveals his dyeing practices and know-how.