Presentations

C26 | Paula Nabais, “Study and Interpretation of Historical Natural Dye Formulations for Modern Textile Design”, NOVA Science and Innovation Day: Excellence in Research, Transforming the Future, Lisbon, Portugal, 12th December 2025, invited.

C25 | Márcia Vieira, Paula Nabais, Mara Espirito Santo, Marta Manso e Sónia Domingos, “A cor da lã: A ciência como contributo para a história da tinturaria industrial em Portugal”, XLIV Encontro da APHES – Associação Portuguesa de História Económica e Social, Évora, Portugal, 14-15 November, 2025.

C24 | Paula Nabais, “Study and interpretation of historical natural dye formulations for modern textile design”, Expert Meeting on Historical Natural Dyes “Threads of Knowledge: Reconnecting Europe’s Historical Dyeing Practices”, Antwerp, Belgium, 12-14 November 2025, Invited.

C23 | Joana Sequeira, Paula Nabais, Márcia Vieira, “Beyond the armour: the colors of a medieval royal military vest”, 9th INTERNATIONAL PURPUREAE VESTES SYMPOSIUM “Weaving Together Traditional and New Approaches to Textile Production and Consumption in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond”, 22 – 24 Octobre 2025, Lisbon Portugal.

C22 | Jane Malcolm-Davies, and Paula Nabais, “Scarlatto, carmine and rossi: investigating red dyes in early modern knitted caps”, North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles, Warsaw, Poland, 22nd-24th May, 2024.

C21 | Mara Espirito Santo, Mila Crippa, Dominique Cardon, Vanessa Otero, Paula Nabais, “The Heart of the Scarlet Reds: Insight Into 18th-Century European Recipes to Reproduce Tin Liquor”, ICOM-CC Art Technological Source Research Interim Meeting 2025 – Lisbon, Portugal 22-23 May 2025.

C20 | Joana Sequeira, and Paula Nabais, “As Cores do Rei Guerreiro: um estudo cromático do loudel de D. João I”, 5º Encontro Nacional do IN2PAST, Braga, Portugal, 22nd-25th January 2025.

C19 | Mila Crippa, Diego Tamburini, Francesco Palmas, Dominique Cardon, Paula Nabais, Takumasa Kondo, “Combining HPLC-DAD-HRMS Analysis with Taxonomy for the Characterisation of Lac Dye from Kerria Species”, Dyes in History and Archaeology Conference 43, Leeds, UK, 23rd-25th October 2024

C18 | Paula Nabais, Dominique Cardon, Sandrine Rouzier, Mara Espirito Santo, Mila Crippa, Maria João Melo, Mathieu Thoury, Chlöe Coustet, and Aldo Romani, “From  Micro  to  Macro:  the  multitudes  of  molecular  luminescence  for  the analysis of natural dyes in textiles”, Scientific Methods in Cultural Heritage Research, Gordon Research Conference, “Advances and Challenges in Heritage Materials Characterization and Data Interpretation”, Les Diablerets, Switzerland, 7th-12th July, 2024.

C17 | Natércia Teixeira, Mara Santo, Tiago Alves, and Paula Nabais, “Inspirations from the past for eco-innovative natural dyeing and mordanting solutions for the 21st textile dyeing industry”, Oral Communication at Biocolours 2024, 4th to 7th June, 2024, Helsinki, Finland.

C16 | Paula Nabais*, Dominique Cardon, Sandrine Rouzier, Mara Santo, Mila Crippa, Maria João Melo, Mathieu Thoury, Chlöe Coustet and Aldo Romani, “From Micro to Macro: the multitudes of molecular luminescence for the analysis of natural dyes in textiles”, Poster Communication at the Gordon Conference 2024, Advances and Challenges in Heritage Materials Characterization and Data Interpretation, 7th to 12th July 2024, Les Diablerets, Switzerland.

C15 | Mara Santo, Rafael Díaz Hidalgo, Luís Ferreira, Joana Sequeira, Dominique Cardon, and Paula Nabais, “Cochineal Reds in Iberia and France: A comparative study of wool dyeing recipes from 18th-Century sources”, Poster Communication at Dyes in History and Archaeology 2024, 23rd to 25th October 2024 Leeds, UK. Best poster award, by the Society of Dyers and Colorists.

C14 | Mila Crippa, Diego Tamburini, Francesco Palmas, Dominique Cardon, Paula Nabais, and Takumasa Kondo, “Combining HPLC-DAD-HRMS Analysis with Taxonomy for the Characterisation of Lac Dye from Kerria Species”, Oral Communication at Dyes in History and Archaeology 2024, 23rd to 25th October 2024 Leeds, UK.

C13 | Joana Sequeira, and Paula Nabais, “As cores do rei guerreiro: um estudo cromático do loudel de D. João I”, Poster Communication at 5º Encontro Nacional de Investigadores/as do IN2PAST, 22nd to 25th January 2025, Braga, Portugal.

C12 | Mila Crippa, Paula Nabais, and Dominique Cardon, “Lac Dye Reds: Historical Insight into International Trades and Dyeing Practices from The Middles Ages to The Early Modern Period”, Oral Communication at Intertwined Textiles Conference, 20th to 21st June 2024, Lisbon, Portugal.

C11 | Joana Sequeira, Luís Gonçalves Ferreira e Manuel Conceição, “Do tear ao quartel: os lanifícios da Covilhã nos uniformes militares portugueses do início do século XIX”. Reunião da equipa REVIVE – “The threads of the past weaving the future: the colors form the Royal Textile Factory of Covilhã, 1764-1850”, 4 e 5 de fevereiro de 2025, Museu de Lanifícios – Centro de Documentação/ Arquivo Histórico da Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal.

C10 | Paula Nabais, Mara Santo, Natércia Teixeira, Mila Crippa and Dominique Cardon, “Molecular fluorescence: disclosing the dyeing formulations of weld yellows from 18th-century recipe books”, International conference on analytical techniques in art and cultural heritage (TECHNART), 7-12 May 2023, Lisbon, Portugal.

C9 | Natércia Teixeira, Paula Nabais, Mara Santo, Victor de Freitas, “Back from the past: polyphenols as eco-innovative mordanting solutions for the textile dyeing industry”, XXXI International Conference on Polyphenols (ICP), 3-6 July 2023, Nantes, France.

C8 | Paula Nabais, Rita Salvado, Natércia Teixeira, Marta Manso, Joana Sequeira, Elisa Pinheiro, “The threads of the past weaving the future: The colors from the Royal Textile Factory of Covilhã, 1764-1850”, VI CHAM International Conference “Heritage for a common future, futures for a common heritage”, 12-15 July 2023, Lisbon, Portugal.

C7 | Rafael Javier Díaz Hidalgo, Paula Nabais, “Reconstrucción de recetas de teñido de la lana a partir del Manual del tintorero Joanot Valero (siglo XV) ”, Invited, XV Seminário de Historia Medieval, “Pruévalo e verás ques cierto: Técnicas y conocimientos de la sociedad medieval”, 6 September 2023, Córdoba, Spain.

C6 | Rafael Javier Díaz Hidalgo, Paula Nabais, “The production of dyed wool textiles in the Iberian Peninsula: technical knowledge from the 15th to the 18th centuries”, 2nd International Conference on Drugs & Colors in History: From the Past to the Present, 21-22 September 2023, Évora, Spain.

C5 | Paula Nabais, Rita Salvado, Graça Filipe, Elisa Pinheiro, and Helena Correia, “REVIVE and the ARQUEOTEX database: the production of uniforms for the Portuguese army in the Pombaline Royal Manufacture of Wool of Covilhã, 1764-1850”, Workshop Lists and Inventories of Textiles from Ancient to Modern Times, 9 -10 October 2023, Online

C4 | Mara Santo, Mila Crippa, Dominique Cardon, Natércia Teixeira, and Paula Nabais, “Mémoires de Teinture: the yellows from an 18th-century recipe book by Paul Gout”, 42nd Meeting of Dyes in History and Archaeology (DHA 42), 1-3 November 2023, Copenhangen, Denmark.

C3 | Paula Nabais, “Bridging Science and Art: innovative methodologies for the identification of organic colorants in artworks”, Invited, Lecture for Research group NorCol: Norwegian Colors, 3 October 2023, Online.

C2 | Paula Nabais, “Colours in Cultural Heritage: Between past, present and future”, Invited, Lecture for the Seminars ‘Science in Cultural Heritage: Interdisciplinary thinking’, by the Technical University of Munich, Germany, 9 November 2023, Online

C1 | Paula Nabais, Mila Crippa, Mara Santo, Rita Salvado, Dominique Cardon, and Sandrine Rozier, “The threads of the past weaving the future: Exploring 18th-century Portuguese and French wool dyeing recipes”, International Conference of ICOM-CC, 18-22 September 2023, Valência, Spain.

S12 | Rita Salvado, “REVIVE – As cores da Real Fábrica de Panos da Covilhã, 1764-1850. Uma abordagem de história pública no Museu de Lanifícios”, Seminar moderated by Joana Sequeira, on behalf of “ciclo de aulas abertas” of the master in History, at the University of Minho, 2 of May 2024, Braga, Portugal.

S11 | Paula Nabais and Mara Santo, “Corantes Naturais: Passado, Presente & Futuro”, Seminar for the Museum Day at the National Costume Museum, May 2024, Lisbon, Portugal.

S10 | Paula Nabais, “Bridging Sience and Art: Innovative Methodologies for the Identification of Organic Colorants in Textiles”, Seminar for the Bergen University Museum, September, Bergen, Norway.

S9 | Paula Nabais, “Bridging Science and Art: innovative methodologies for the identification of organic colorants in artworks”, Seminar for the Associated Laboratory of Green Chemistry, 27th November 2024, Portugal.

S8 | Paula Nabais, “REVIVE: The Threads of the Past Weaving the Future”, COST seminar on Digital Training School on Research and Career Pathways in Textile Heritage, 29th and 30th of July 2024, online.

S7 | Paula Nabais, “Bridging Science and Art: innovative methodologies for the identification of organic colorants in artworks”, Seminar for master students from Fashion Design, at the University of Beira Interior, 19th April 2024, Covilhã, Portugal.

S6 | Paula Nabais, “Bridging Science and Art: innovative methodologies for the identification of organic colorants in artworks”, Seminar for bachelor students from the Art History Department at the NOVA University of Lisbon, 19th July 2024, Lisbon, Portugal.

S5 | Mara Santo, “Yellow Dyes of Historical Importance: a handful of weld yellows from the 18th century recipes books of French master dyers Antoine Janot and Paul Gout”, Seminar for a dyeing workshop, 4th July 2024, Montpellier, France.

S4 | Catarina Costeira, Paula Nabais, Francisco B. Gomes, and Teresa Rita Pereira, “Tecidos do passado inspiram o futuro: Perspectivas para a valorização do Património Têxtil português a partir da experiência da Acção COST EuroWeb – Europe through Textiles”, MAEDS – Museu de Arqueologia e Etnografia do Distrito de Setúbal/ AMRS, 23 June 2023, Setubal, Portugal.

S3 | Paula Nabais, Rita Salvado, and Joana Sequeira, Participation on the round table “MALVA meets REVIVE”, at the Wool Museum of Covilhã, 8 July 2023, Covilhã, Portugal.

S2 | Joana Sequeira, "Materials, technological innovation, and taste in the medieval textile culture", Seminar for the PhD students of the doctoral programme CORES, Department of Conservation and Restoration, NOVA University of Lisbon, 25th October 2023.

S1 | Paula Nabais, “Bridging Science and Art: Innovative methodologies for the identification of organic colorants in textiles”, Seminar for bachelor students, Department of History, NOVA University of Lisbon, 28th February 2024.