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  • In the mean time, I invite you to join me in a rousing chorus of "Woad" and to raise a glass of Smithson & Greaves's Northern Bitter.

    Liberal England 2008

  • The name Wode is taken from the word "Woad", a deep blue plant extract, which was used in paste form by the ancient Britons as a tribal marking.

    Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion 2008

  • In the mean time, I invite you to join me in a rousing chorus of "Woad" and to raise a glass of Smithson & Greaves’s Northern Bitter.

    Liberator Songbook 2008: Lord Bonkers' introduction 2008

  • In the mean time, I invite you to join me in a rousing chorus of "Woad" and to raise a glass of Smithson & Greaves’s Northern Bitter.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • First it was the Woad Men, then the Stone Dwellers, then the Men of the Gray Sea.

    GROWN FROM MAN TO DRAGON • by Megan Arkenberg 2009

  • Woad was the only source of blue dye in Europe, it says, until indigo began to be imported from the East rather late in the story.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Jean 2009

  • Still there may be one benefit: perhaps next year the SRU will not be able to afford the gang of Tartan-clad and Woad-covered Pictish Warriors at Murrayfield that seems to have escaped from a nearby zoo which always seems to turn up for the pre-match ceremonies amidst all the ludicrous flame-throwers.

    Archive 2007-07-08 2007

  • Still there may be one benefit: perhaps next year the SRU will not be able to afford the gang of Tartan-clad and Woad-covered Pictish Warriors at Murrayfield that seems to have escaped from a nearby zoo which always seems to turn up for the pre-match ceremonies amidst all the ludicrous flame-throwers.

    Scots Trash Entire Sport 2007

  • "Woad, Tattooing, and the Archaeology of Rebellion in Britain."

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • A more potent and more easily worked color source, indigo never completely dislodged the use of native woad in France or Germany: the two substances were often combined. reference Woad became an essential assistant, making the cloth supple and beautiful.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

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