Introduction: the value of color, Andrea Feeser, Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin-- Part I Color's Social and Cultural Meanings: Colorizing New England's burying grounds, Jason LaFountain-- The extra-ordinary powers of red in 18- and 19th-century English needlework, Maureen Daly Goggin-- Coloring the sacred in 16th-century Central Mexico, Molly H. Basset and Jeanette Favrot Peterson-- The expense of ink and wastes of shame: poetic generation, black ink, and material waste in Shakespeare's Sonnets, Mitchell Harris-- 'Luscious colors and glossy paint': the taste for China and the consumption of colors in 18th-century England, Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding.-- Part II Producing and Exchanging Pigments and Dyes: Seeking red: the production and trade of cochineal dye in Oaxaca, Mexico, 1750-1821, Jeremy Baskes-- Red ochre, vermilion and the transatlantic cosmetic encounter, J.-F. Lozier-- Indian Indigo, Padmini Tolat Balaram-- The exceptional and the expected: red, white, and black made blue in colonial South Carolina, Andrea Feeser-- Prussian Blue: transfers and trials, Sarah Lowengard.-- Part III Making Colored Objects: Glass bracelets in the medieval and early modern Middle East: design and color as identity markers, Stephanie Karine Boulogne-- The colorful court of Gabriel Bethlen and Catherine of Brandenburg, Eva Deak-- The evolution of blackface cosmetics on the early modern stage, Richard Blunt-- Crafts of color: Tupi Tapirage in early colonial Brazil, Amy Buono-- Colors and techniques of 18th-century Chinese wallpaper: Blair House as case study, Elaine Gibbs-- Butterflies, spiders, and shells: coloring natural history illustrations in late 18th-century Britain, Beth Fowkes Tobin-- Bibliography-- Index.