CONFERENCE
As part of the project "Dyeing and Dyeing: From Tradition to Industry" (LU-BA-ZG-2024/1-0007), Anete Karlsone, a leading researcher at the Institute of Latvian History at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Latvia (UL), participated in the international conference "Historical Clothing and Textiles in Northern and Eastern Europe", dedicated to the history of clothing and textiles, which took place as part of the UL 83rd international conference on February 20 and 21, 2025, on the ZOOM platform. The paper "Commercially significant textile dyes for Latvian peasants in the mid-19th century" based on the analysis (textual, contextual, statistical, etc.) of written sources (Latvian press publications) showed the process of the use of textile dyes (both natural and synthetic) that were current in Europe in the territory of the former Vidzeme and Kurzeme provinces, its dynamics and the diversity of available dyes, which could directly influence the development of traditional clothing in the territory of modern Latvia. The paper also traces the entry of the novelty of 19th-century European and world chemical discoveries – aniline textile dyes – into the local Baltic market.
