The 10th
Experimental Archaeology Conference will be held in Leiden, Netherlands, on April 20-22 2017. The
Call for Papers is still open until September 1, so if you'd like to offer a presentation, you should do so soon.
The Virtual Library for Art,
arthistoricum.net, has a full-text server called ART-Dok, made available by
Heidelberg University Library. It offers members of the academic community worldwide the opportunity to publish their texts in electronic format on the internet at no charge. As for now, it provides free full-text access to 4,194 publications. You can also do fulltext searches through the texts. Intrigued? Go here to find the publications archive.
Textilis has a
blog post about transferring embroidery designs in the 18th century.
The paper about the dyeing experiments done at the European Textile Forum in relation to the Pompeii lead vats, published in EXARC, has now gone open access:
Investigating the Influence of the Kettle Material on Dyeing in the Industry of Pompeii.
And finally, totally unrelated and only here because of its sheer weirdness - did you know that there was a
trend to dye armpit hair in bright colours, a while ago? I didn't, until this morning...