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Dr. Takako Terada is a professor at Kwassui Women’s College where she teaches in the Faculty of Wellness Studies. Shellfish purples from molluscs are her specialty and she has presented academic papers about her murex research in Norway, India, USA, El Salvador, and China.
Dr. Terada is currently engaged in a Japan-Canada project to be presented at a dye archeology conference in Istanbul this October.

Her recent commissions include a chasuble and murex-dyed vestments for the bishop of Nagasaki.

Dr. Takako Terada will talk about the historical/archaeological aspects relating to shellfish purple dyeing and its colouring properties. She will also present her own artistic work.