Fiber-Safe Extraction of Red Mordant Dyes from Hair Fibers

January 1995 in “ Journal of the American Institute for Conservation ”

Erica J. Tiedemann, Yiqi Yang

EDTA DMF spectrophotometry tensile strength cochineal-dyed fabric dyestuffs pre-Columbian cameloid fibers TLC HPLC ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid dimethylformamide thin-layer chromatography high-performance liquid chromatography

Studysummary This study introduced a new method for extracting red mordant dyes from wool fibers that preserved the fibers for further analysis and allowed for spectrophotometric examination of the dyes' absorption curves.

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