Investigations into the Dyeing Industry in Pompeii

Heather Hopkins Pepper graduated with BSc Archaeology and PhD in Roman Engineering from the University of Bradford. She was made AIfA in 2009. She continues to research, present and publish widely, diversifying through collaboration with different disciplines, including recent experiments through the European Textile Forum to explore the choice of materials used in dyeing apparatus. She edited and co-edited the first and second proceedings of the European Textile Forum in 2013 and 2018.

Preface ;


Timeline of previous work relevant to this study ;


Chapter Zero: Preface to the published thesis ;



An investigation of the parameters that would influence the scale of the dyeing industry in Pompeii: an application of experimental archaeology and computer simulation techniques to investigate the scale of manufacture of the dyeing industry and the factors that influence output ;


Chapter One: Introduction to the dyeing industry of Pompeii ;


Chapter Two: Literature Review ;


Chapter Three: Experimental Replica ;


Chapter Four: Review of Remains in situ ;



Full Gazetteer of Dyeing Apparatus in Pompeii ;


Chapter Five Application of Ergonomics to Apparatus and Skeletal data ;


Chapter Six: Flued Experimental replica ;


Chapter Seven: The Finite Element model ;


Chapter Eight: Discussion ;


Glossary ;


References ;



Appendices ;


Appendix One: Coding Pompeii: The layout of the city and address description ;


Appendix Two: Understanding the economic influence of the dyeing industry in Pompeii through the application of experimental archaeology and thermodynamics ;


Appendix Three ;


Appendix Four: Assembling lead data for model ;


Appendix Five: Abaqus input decks ;



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