Dominique CardonDominique Cardon is Emerita Head of Research at CIHAM/ UMR 5648, CNRS (National Centre of Scientific Research) in Lyons, France. She was awarded the Silver Medal of CNRS in 2011. Her long pursued research themes are the history and archaeology of texile production and dyeing. She is the author of La Draperie au Moyen Âge – Essor d’une grande industrie européenne, Paris, 1999, and of several books on Natural Dyes, one of which received the “Art and Science of Colour Prize” of the L’Oréal Foundation in 2003. Scientific director of a series of International Symposiums/Workshops on Natural Dyes, in India, South Korea, Taiwan and France, she was awarded the UNESCO Medal “Thinking and Building Peace” in 2006 for this contribution. Read More Read Less