How To Use Woad In A Sentence
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Blues used in tartan cloth originally came from the native plant woad, which was also used as a form of ceremonial face and body paint by ancient Scots.
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Your epic fantasy novel, The Dragons of Duncan's Ass Tattoo, can portray My Ass Tattoo's blue-skinned denizens, their miniature zeppelins, and their sphincter-worshipping rituals either accurately or inaccurately, with or without prejudice, but you ain't going to be appropriating their culture until you start covering yourseves in woad, living in airships and pouring libations to The One True Hole.
Cultural Appropriation
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Until the advent of synthetic dyes, woad was cultivated in great plantations that were for a time a mainstay in some colonial economies.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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All of these came from natural sources such as madder, kermes, red and white lead, verdigris, yellow ochre, yellow arsenic sulphide, oak gall, indigo and woad and lapis lazuli.
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The distinctive blue dye used by the Picts to tattoo themselves came from the woad plant, which grows wild in the North of Britain.
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Serena II this clonic earth see-saw she is blurred in sleep she is fat half dead the rest is free-wheeling part the black shag the pelt is ashen woad snarl and howl in the wood wake all the birds hound the harlots out of the ferns this damfool twilight threshing in the brake bleating to be bloodied this crapulent hush tears its heart out and so on...
Archive 2006-04-01
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Processes to decompose plant matter through chemical or physical techniques had models, for both preparation and results, in indigo and woad. reference Heating, or the addition of fermenting agents, shortened preparation time and ensured that the greatest quantity of color was extracted.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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He need not indulge in what is called the woad argument; we sha'n't go back to the early
Promenades of an Impressionist
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Caesar claimed far more widespread use of the blue dye woad, but this was used over the whole body and not for painting or tattooing patterns.
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-- This is sometimes called woaded black, and has an excellent reputation as a fast black.
The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
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Indigotin (from woad) was used in conjunction with other dyes to produce several purples (with madder) and a green (with the unidentified yellow).
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The woad plant contains less indigotin, the coloring material within the source, and it requires higher heats to create color in textiles.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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A woaded color, for example, is only fast in respect of the vat indigo which it contains, and yet how frequent is the custom to unite with the indigo such dyes as barwood, orchil, and indigo-carmine, the fugitive character of which I have pointed out.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891
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The replacement of woad with indigo is an example of the (literal) intertwining of local and imported coloring sources.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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But I agree that the Latin "Picti" meaning "Painted" may have been a mere coincidence as the Romans would have been more than familiar with woaded savages before reaching Pictland a name we could now translate as "Landland" oddly enough.
The Picts (or Cruithne, or Albans): What's in a name?
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The fuller's teazle, and woad for dyeing, also grew, and still grow, I learn from Dr. Williamson, though I have not found either, in the neighbourhood.
Highways and Byways in Surrey
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Blue: Handful of woad or 2 cups chopped red cabbage*
Robyn Griggs Lawrence: Dye Easter Eggs Naturally With Onions, Beets and Blueberries
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Our ideas of what colours looked like come from stained glass of the period or paintings, but in reality they would have been quite different as they came not from pigments but from vegetable dyes, like madderwort (red), weld (yellow) and woad (blue), all from plants, to the reds of kermes and cochineal extracted from crushed insects.
Archive 2007-05-01
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She asked him to build a church to her memory and per-formed the first miracle in the New WoAd.
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Eighteenth-century manuals of practice often classify woad and indigo among direct dyes because they require no mordant or assistants, but their chemistry demanded a dyeing process different from typical direct methods. 8 reference Modern descriptions classify them as leuco dyes, in which the normally insoluble and nonadherent coloring material is made soluble by the removal of oxygen, a reduction process.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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These may be divided into two groups: (1) Fermentation vats, in which the action of reducing agents is brought about through the influences of the fermentation of organic bodies, such as woad, bran, treacle, etc; (2) Chemical vats in which the reducing effect is brought about by the reaction of various agents on one another.
The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
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Until the advent of synthetic dyes, woad was cultivated in great plantations that were for a time a mainstay in some colonial economies.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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Until the advent of synthetic dyes, woad was cultivated in great plantations that were for a time a mainstay in some colonial economies.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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Woad robs the soil of nutrients, forcing medieval woad growers in Europe to move frequently in search of uncultivated land.
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With these goes the Wadman, who dealt in, or grew, the dye-plant called woad; cf. Flaxman.
The Romance of Names
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Indigo was a more efficient dyestuff, but woad was one native to Europe. reference As a result, we might expect to find regular resistance to the use of indigo as it began to replace woad in European dyehouses. reference Substitution patterns were different in every region, however.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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The early Celts are fun to draw, with blue woad tattoos, punk-like spiky hair and walrus-like moustaches.
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Plants from the genus Isatis ( woad ) yielded a blue dye called indigo that once held great ceremonial importance.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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Blues used in tartan cloth originally came from the native plant woad, which was also used as a form of ceremonial face and body paint by ancient Scots.
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If he wasn't putting the hairy tribesmen of Germania to the sword, he was massacring the Gaulish ranks at Alesia in modern-day France or striking terror into the woad-daubed hordes of Britain.
Boardroom Conquerors
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But vicereversing thereout from those palms of perfection to anger arbour, treerack monatan, scroucely out of scout of ocean, virid with woad, what tornaments of complementary rages rocked the divlun from his punchpoll to his tummy’s shentre as he dis-plaid all the oathword science of his visible disgrace.
Finnegans Wake
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‘All Britons dye themselves with woad which makes them blue,’ Caesar recorded, ‘so that in battle their appearance is more terrible.’
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Industrial crops such as flax and dye-plants (madder, woad, and weld), and other cash crops such as coleseed, hops, and tobacco, increased revenue per hectare, enabling more people to live from the earnings of smaller plots.
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Monkshood, horehound, henbane, vervain (good against the spells of witches), feverfew, dog's mercury, bistort, woad, and so on, all seem like relics of the days of black-letter books.
Nature Near London
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(The spell-checker which continues to complain about “woad” has no trouble with “dithionite”.)
Archive 2009-01-01
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We shall say this year, with exactly the same accents of relief and hope as our pagan ancestors used, and as the woaded savage used: "The days will begin to lengthen now!
The Feast of St. Friend
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Tirien knew that the woad plant could give a blue dye, but she didn't know it could be utilized for other purposes.
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A woaded color, for example, is only fast in respect of the vat indigo which it contains, and yet how frequent is the custom to unite with the indigo such dyes as barwood, orchil, and indigo-carmine, the fugitive character of which I have pointed out.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891
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Thus the dyers distinguish their materials: the first are applicative, and communicate their colours to the matters boiled in them; or passed through them; as woad, scarlet, green, cochineal, indigo, madder, turmeric, &c.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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A woaded color, for example, is only fast in respect of the vat indigo which it contains, and yet how frequent is the custom to unite with the indigo such dyes as barwood, orchil, and indigo-carmine, the fugitive character of which I have pointed out.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891
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Some few, however, are important, such as woad, weld, heather, walnut, alder, oak, some lichens; and many of the less important ones would produce valuable colours if experiments were made with the right mordants.
Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer
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I would not mind Mr. Noyes putting himself lyrically into the woaded skin of our ancestors.
Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911
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The 64-year-old's winning word was "woad," a plant whose leaves yield a blue dye.
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