Exempel på woad

• Blue is also possible, but it seems unlikely that results were so much better than those obtainable from the much cheaper woad or indigo.

• Indigo is extracted from woad for use as inks and dyes.

• If we followed that sort of argument and went back far enough, we should now be nude and painting ourselves with woad.

• That is only to be expected, of course; they were civilised when we were still running about in woad.

• In between, there are industrial applications with moderate potential; for example, dyestuffs such as woad or resins and adhesives.

• Yet here we are talking about woad as an important source of pigment for industrial purposes.

• That is to say, if the woad can be distributed at something like a no-profit price we shall be happy.

• We are embarking on providing a constitution for an island which was civilised when our ancestors were walking about wearing woad.

• Woad was a sort of antiseptic for those who went into battle; it was not normal dress.

• Woad was replaced by true indigo as trade routes opened up, and both are now largely replaced by synthetic dyes.

• Indigo blue had the same chemical composition as woad, but it was more concentrated and produced a richer and more stable blue.

• Woad and true indigo were used to produce indigo dye used to colour fabrics blue or indigo.

• Commercially produced indigo has replaced woad as a dye (although seeds of woad can still be obtained).

• The special manufacture was blue cloth, dyed, no doubt, with woad, licence to grow which was asked in the neighbourhood in the 16th century.

• The rapid growth of the island, in this phase, was the result of the cultivation of wheat, and the growth in the woad industry.