Publications

Márcia Vieira & Paula Nabais, editors

Reviving the Rainbow: Reviving Natural Dye Traditions

ebook, 2026

Mara Espirito Santo, Márcia Vieira, Marta Manso, Sónia Domingos, Joana Sequeira, Dominique Cardon, Vanessa Otero, Paula Nabais, 

Beneath the Threads: Colour and Dyeing Knowledge in 18th-century Portuguese Textiles

Proceedings of the International Colour Association, accepted

Paula Nabais, Mara Espirito Santo, Mila Crippa, Natércia Teixeira, Dominique Cardon,

Disclosing the dyeing formulations of weld yellows from 18th-century recipe books with molecular fluorescence

Dyes and Pigments, 113590, 2026

Mara Espítiro Santo, Rafael Díaz Hidalgo, Luís Gonçalves Ferreira, Dominique Cardon, Joana Sequeira, Vanessa Otero, Paula Nabais

Cochineal Reds in Iberia and France: A Comparative Study of 18th Century Tin-Mordant Recipes to Dye Wool

Heritage, 8(9):375-25, 2025

Mila Crippa, Dominique Cardon, Diego Tamburini, Takumasa Kondo, Paula Nabais

Lac Dye Colours: A Review of the Origin, History and Identification Techniques in Textiles

Journal of Cultural Heritage, 75:307, 2025

Luís Gonçalves Ferreira

Domesticating Colour in the Early Modern Age: Dyeing Wool in Black in Portugal

Heritage, 7(2), 873-895, 2024

Mara Santo, Dominique Cardon, Natércia Teixeira, Mila Crippa, and Paula Nabais

Yellow Dyes of Historical Importance: A handful of Weld yellows from the 18th-century recipe books of French master dyers Antoine Janot & Paul Gout

Heritage, 6(12), 7466-7481, 2023

Paula Nabais, Jane Malcolm-Davies, Maria João Melo, Natércia Teixeira, Beatrice Behlen

Early modern knitted caps (fifteenth to sixteenth centuries): analyzing dyes in archaeological samples using microspectrofluorimetry complemented by HPLC–MS

Heritage Science, 11:220, 2023

Mara Espírito Santo, Luís Gonçalves Ferreira, Joana Sequeira, Vanessa Otero, Paula Nabais, 

O Segredo do Escarlate em Portugal no Séc. XVIII

UBIMUSEUM, accepted

Márcia Vieira, Paula Nabais, Mara Espírito Santo, Sónia Domingos, 

Da Planta ao Azul: História e Processos de Produção do Índigo

UBIMUSEUM, accepted

Paula Nabais, Cecilie Brøns, and Magdalena M. Wozniak

Reds, Blues and Yellows: Interdisciplinary insights into the use of madder, indigo/woad and weld in textiles, polychromy, and manuscripts

Textile Crossroads: Exploring European Clothing, Identity, and Culture across Millennia, EuroWeb Anthology Book