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= Dominique Cardon =

Dominique Cardon, born on April 13, 1947 in Paris, is a French historian specialized in the history and archaeology of textiles, and particularly the history and revival of natural dyes.
BIOGRAPHY

After studies in history and archaeology in Paris (Sorbonne) and Dublin (University College), Ireland, she learns the techniques of spinning, handweaving and dyeing with natural colorants in Ireland and Peru. Back in France, she pursues researches into the technical mediaeval documentation in parallel with experimental archaeology, reconstituting ancient dye recipes. She applies her experimentations to textile creations for the French High Fashion. Her PhD thesis in History (1990, University Paul Valéry-Montpellier III) and her Habilitation thesis (1996, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) explored the technology of the medieval woolcloth production in Europe.

She joined the French National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) in 1991. She currently works as CNRS Emerita Director of Research at the Lyon-based research unit CIHAM/UMR 5648.

Since 1997, she has been studying and publishing archaeological textiles from the 1st-3rd centuries CE discovered in the rubbish heaps of small Roman fortresses (praesidia) scattered along the caravan roads in the Eastern Desert of Egypt excavated under the direction of Hélène Cuvigny (director of research at CNRS, Institut de Papyrologie de la Sorbonne, Paris). Since 2002, she collaborates in the study and publication of archaeological textiles and clothing being discovered in the Bronze Age to early CE sites of the Taklamakan desert excavated by the Franco-Chinese Archaeological Mission in Xinjiang (China) under the direction of Corinne Debaine-Francfort (director of research at CNRS, UMR 7041 – ArScAn, Archaeology of Central Asia).

Dominique Cardon’s worldwide research into the history, archaeology, and surviving traditional processes of dyeing with natural colorants has resulted in fruitful collaborations as a consultant for UNESCO and in the scientific coordination of several international symposiums on natural dyes. Her current publications of ancient dyers’ recipe books illustrated with dyed textile samples aim at inspiring today’s designers and colorists to revive the colours of the past. She has acted as International Advisor to the Board of the Textile Society of America since 2010 and has been a membre of ISSART (International Association for the Study of Silk Roads Textiles) since 2015  and a scientific correspondant of the Japanese Association Natural Dyes and Pigments Conferences (NDPC) since 2005.

BOOKS
 * The Dyer’s Handbook – Memoirs of an 18th century Master Colourist. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2016.
 * Le Monde des Teintures naturelles. Paris : Belin, 2014. 2nd edition updated and expanded.
 * Mémoires de teinture – Voyage dans le temps chez un maître des couleurs. Paris : CNRS Editions, 2013.
 * Natural Dyes - Sources, Tradition, Technology and Science. London : Archetype Books, 2007.
 * La Draperie au Moyen Âge - Essor d'une grande industrie européenne. Paris : CNRS Editions, 1999.
 * Teintures précieuses de la Méditerranée : Pourpre, Kermès, Pastel / Tintes preciosos del Mediterráneo : Púrpura, Quermes,Pastel. Carcassonne : Musée des Beaux-Arts / Terrassa : Centre de Documentació i Museu Tèxtil, 1999.
 * Guide des Teintures Naturelles - Couleurs de la Nature, Nature des couleurs (1990) Paris/Lausanne: Delachaux et Niestlé, 1990.
 * JANSEN, P.C.M. & D. CARDON (eds). Dyes and Tanins. Plant Resources of Tropical Africa 3. Wageningen : PROTA Foundation/Backhuis Publishers/CTA, 2005.
 * CARDON, D. et M. FEUGERE (eds), Archéologie des Textiles, Actes du Colloque de Lattes, oct. 1999, Monographies Instrumentum 14, Montagnac : Monique Mergoil, 2000.
 * CARDON, D. & H.E. MÜLLEROTT (eds.) Actes/Papers/Beiträge. 2e Congrès international «Pastel, Indigo et autres teintures naturelles: passé, présent, futur (1995/1998) Arnstadt : Thüringer Chronik-Verlag, 1995/1998.

DISTINCTIONS
 * 2003 : Art and Science of Color » Prize, Bronze Award, L’Oréal Foundation, for the book  Le Monde des Teintures naturelles.
 * 2006 : UNESCO Medal «Thinking and Building Peace.
 * 2011 : Silver Medal of CNRS.
 * 2013 : Grand Prix of the Woad Academy, Toulouse, France.
 * 2015 : Silver Shuttle of the Association « Tours City of Silk ».
 * 2016 : Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.
 * 2017 : Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts, des Lettres et de la Culture of the Republic of Madagascar for the scientific coordination of the International Festival Plants, Ecology and Colors (IFPECO).