中文简介：

本书引人入胜地回顾了染色布料丰富而动荡的历史。

几个世纪以来，我们对自然界的操纵导致了全球合成染料生产和应用的爆炸性增长。为了深入了解民间习俗是如何消失的，以及如何发现技术过程的，人类学家兼纺织艺术家劳伦·麦克唐纳（Lauren MacDonald）探索了一种既古老又现代的做法：染色布料。长期以来，对色彩的追求引发了经济和社会的竞争，通过这本深入研究的书，我们探索了用于染布的材料向我们讲述的故事。这些故事讲述了我们与自然的复杂关系、我们令人不安的进步观念以及我们对权力和劳动的理解。

本书汇集了历史技术、档案摄影、标本和当代事件，讲述了世界上一些重要染料的历史。该书附有32页的补充资料，详细介绍了染色工艺背后的实际应用和化学原理。本书有三种不同的封面(红色、黄色和蓝色)，将随机发货，让读者有更多惊喜。

劳伦·麦克唐纳（1990年出生）是一位多学科艺术家、设计师和伦敦纺织工作室Working Cloth的创始人。她拥有材料文化、纺织科学和时尚方面的背景。

英文简介：

An engrossing look at the rich and turbulent history of coloring cloth

Over the centuries our manipulation of the natural world has resulted in an explosion of synthetic dye production and application globally. To gain insight into the history of how folk practices have been lost and technical processes found, anthropologist and textile artist Lauren MacDonald explores a practice that is both ancient and wholly modern: coloring cloth. The pursuit of color has long spurred economic and social contest, and through this deeply researched volume we explore the stories that the materials used to dye cloth tell us about our complex relationship to nature, our troubling ideas about progress and our understanding of power and labor.

In Pursuit of Color brings together historic techniques, archive photography, specimens and present-day events to tell the histories of some of the world's most important dyestuffs. A 32-page supplement accompanies the volume, detailing practical applications and the chemistry behind dyeing processes. The book comes in three different covers (red, yellow and blue) which are shipped randomly as a further happy surprise.

Lauren MacDonald (born 1990) is a Canadian-born multidisciplinary artist, designer and founder of the London, UK textiles studio Working Cloth. She has a background in material culture, textile science and fashion.