Everyone wave and say hi. What has everyone been up to? Helen the artist has just joined us and has an interest in dyeing. This year's woad got very tall, and...
Hi Welcome new member! I'll take this opportunity to congratulate belatedly Chris DD on her great prize at the scientific fair. Well done! I am growing Chinese...
Hi, Teresinha and all Thank you from my DD for your congrats. She is now applying to take her woad project to Taiwan for the International Science Fair there...
Hi, woadies Sarah's website has been updated with some new pages. Have a look it you have time. www.woad.ca <http://www.woad.ca/> More pictures are coming...
I cut 750 grams of woad on Sunday from the eight plants that have self-seeded (unfortunately the seed I planted failed to germinate, I guess it was too old). I...
How is everyone else's woad growing? Hi, Kevin, and others We had the problem of the woad not settling out with one batch last summer. The cast off liquid was...
... I never wash the leaves, I thought that soil contamination problem was only of importance with machine harvesting. Looks like I may be wrong. ... I used a...
Hi I am reading an interesting book called 'Blue, the history of a color' by Michel Pastoureau. He says that 'Ovid wrote that elderly Germans dyed their hair...
Hmm, I thought I knew Ovids work quite well, but I've never come across this reference, and a quick flick though a couple of other Roman texts I have to hand...
Found what I think is the reference, its not Ovid at all, it Martial,in 'Epigrams' book XI where he talks about 'Mattiac Balls' being used to dye hair from...
Many thanks Sally. Unfortunally there was not direct reference in the History of Blue book, which is not very good. I have found a reference in the internet...
Hi, Woadies My DD did a preliminary experiment in preparation to begin her marathon extractions of 4 woad strains, to see if she should boil the leaves or not....
A very interesting post, Chris. I had wondered how the yield of indigo from woad compared with that from Indigofera. The traditional view that woad can't...
HI, Kevin and others We found an article from the 2000 Biomass conference in Sevilla (I mentioned this in a previous post). They tested, using 100gms of...
Hi Chris Reading your posts with great interest! 400 plants, wow, that is really serious woad growing. Will have to check where I got that figure for yield...
Hi again Chris http://my.net-link.net/2E/EB/rowan/Woad%20Page/woadpage.html I think that is the source of the 10 times yield, not very scientific source I'm...
Hi, Teresinha Thanks for the links. I checked them out. Here are my thoughts. Rowan's webpage states: "Be prepared for a small yield because woad contains ...
Hi, Teresinha On your website you have a picture of buttons dyed with woad. How did you do that? I tried to dye some mother of pearl buttons but didn't get...
Hi Chris That is a good question, I cannot remember whether I washed my buttons or not. I cannot find them right now. I remembered that I dyed lots of wool in...
Hi all. I've been reading all the posts with great interest, even if some of Chris's gives me brain strain because the term has just ended and I don't have...
Wow! An invitation to jump right in. Thank you. Dyer's Chamomile - I pick the blossoms as they fully open and pop them into a zip-lock bag. They go straight...
In the freezer? Hmmmm. I would have to put big "Do NOT defrost and EAT" stickers on them first. What do you do with the knotweed? I sometimes get it in the...
I wonder what I was lacking? The buttons I used were old, from an antique button jar. We washed before trying to dye. Maybe we rinsed them too soon. We'll...
Hi Chris I did the buttons in a chemical vat, but they stayed in the vat overnight. After I take anything out of the vat I leave it for at least two days...
My kids have figured out that a) stuff in the freezer requires cooking, which is work and b) Mom keeps bags of dye stuff in there, so either way they stay away...
today i dyed with polygonum tinctorium as told by Leena Riihella in her blog. it worked well, the result was nice, but the blue is not the real indigo but some...
yesterday i dyed for the first time this year with woad (fresh leaves). i did several dips till i got only a very light blue. usually i clean up the dyepot...
... the ... I have been following Leena's blog and also that of Helen Melvin (http://growingcolour.blogspot.com/) who is a member of the Online Guild. I am...
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