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Encyclopedia: Woad

Woad (or glastum) is the common name of the flowering plant Isatis tinctoria in the family Brassicaceae. It is occasionally known as Asp of Jerusalem. Woad is also the name of a blue dye produced from the plant. Woad is pronounced to rhyme with road (IPA pronunciation: [woʊd]).

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How to say "Woad" in other languages:

	(German)	Färberwaid
	(French)	Pastel des teinturiers

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Erfurt

Middle Ages. Together with the other five Thuringian woad-towns of Gotha, Tennstedt, Arnstedt and Langensalza it was the centre of the German woad-trade. In 1392 the Erfurt University was founded, which...

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Skyclad

celtic tribes who would go into battle with no clothes although made up with woad war paint. Skyclad...

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Indigo dye

from woad ( Isatis tinctoria ) and dyer's knotweed ( Polygonum tinctorum ), although the Indigofera... Middle Ages, so woad was used instead. In the late fifteenth century, the Portuguese explorer Vasco da... outlawed imported indigo in the 1500s to protect the local woad dye industry. Indigo was the foundation...

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Illuminated manuscript

and minerals Green many plants (chlorophyll is green), copper compounds Blue Woad, indigo...

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Lord Darcy

). Stories A Case of Identity (1964) The Eyes Have It (1964) The Muddle of the Woad (1965) Too Many...

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Madder

) mention the plant (rubia passiva). In Viking age levels of York, remains of both woad and madder have...

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Peter David

Knight Only , Howling Mad , Sir Apropos of Nothing , The Woad to Wuin and Tong Lashing , and a...

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Picts

in his The Gallic Wars stating "all Britons stain themselves with woad which makes them blue and...

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Dye

Direct (substantive) dye Indigo Vat dye Woad Vat dye Alizarin (Madder) Mordant dye Dyer's Broom Mordant...

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Nac Mac Feegle

The Nac Mac Feegle , known also as the Wee Free Men, are a fictional type of fairy appearing in the works of Terry Pratchett. Their skin appears blue, since they are heavily tattooed and covered in woad, and all have red hair. The tattoos indicate which clan the Feegle belongs to. Wings or similar...

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