Plunket appears to have been a pale blue, half the quantity of woad sufficing for plunkets that was used for azures, which in turn took half the amount required for blues.
Through undertaking more jobs than they could properly attend to, much woad was spoilt, and in 1360 they were forbidden to take charge of more than one lot of dye at one time.
The preparation of woad is a curious process on similar principles; which see in page 31.
The two plants Weld and Woad from the similarity of names are frequently confounded with each other, and some of the best agricultural writers have fallen into this error.
No doubt a charming woman is always charming, be she dressed by woad or worth; but to be captivating with your eyebrows plucked out, and with the hair that grows so prettily low on the back of the neck shaved away--was it possible?
The King gave judgment, that the sheep which had eaten the woad were to be given to the Queen in compensation for what they had destroyed.
Woad is a cruciferous plant, Isatis tinctoria, used for dyeing.
It is supposed that woad was "vitrum" the dye with which Caesar said almost all the Britons stained their bodies.
When woad is now used it is always in combination with indigo, to improve the colour.
The best and most enduring blacks were done with this simple dye stuff, the goods being first dyed in the indigo or woad vat till they were a very dark blue, and then browned into black by means of the walnut root.
WOAD Woad is derived from a plant, Isatis tinctoria, growing in the North of France and in England.
Since then woad has been little used except as a fermenting agent for the Indigo vat.
If violet or purple has been traditional, it is so merely because the ancestral Briton stained himself with woad on the death of a relative.
Indigo was introduced into Europe about the sixteenth century, but its use was strongly opposed by the woad cultivators, with whose industry the dye came into competition.
Defn: A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and other plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup.
Woad was still zealously cultivated with great advantage in the north of the Rennstiegs.
He came so very early that none of the family were stirring, except Marvel, who had risen by daybreak to finish some repairs that he was making in the woad apparatus.
Wright had gained this dyer's good opinion by the punctuality with which he had, for three years past, supplied him, at the day and hour appointed, with the quantity of woad for which he had agreed.
With Wright's consent, he employed several of these workmen; and he carried, by their means, the manufacture of woad to a high pitch of perfection.
In Essex and Cambridgeshire are large plantations of saffron; and in Bedfordshire there are large fields of woad or wad, for the use of dyers.
The woad here employed is prepared by grinding the leaves of the woad plant (Isatis tinctoria) to a paste, which is allowed to ferment and then partially dried.
The ingredients of the woad vat are indigo, woad, bran, madder and lime.
In Europe itself the cultivation of dye-plants gradually received more and more attention, and both woad and madder began to be cultivated, about 1507, in France, Germany and Holland.
The woad was prepared a third time, and Kieran's mother asked him not to spoil it, but, on the contrary, to bless it.
During the putrefactive fermentation of the woad ammonia is formed and hydrogen evolved.
Before the introduction of indigo, woad was specially cultivated in Europe, but after the former was brought in, the woad was no longer raised.
The woad (Isatis tinctoria) yields true indigo, but it contains only about one-thirtieth of the quantity found on the indigo tinctoria cultivated in India.
He mentions woad as "trimmed wyth mannes labor in dyenge and wull and clothe," and teazle "which the fullers dresse their cloth wtall.
If the woad was not given up, they threatened to destroy the whole of Guildford by fire the next morning.
Robbers seized the woad at Portsmouth and carried it off to Guildford; Hod, pursuing, recaptured his hogsheads and lodged them in Guildford Castle.
The fuller's teazle, and woadfor dyeing, also grew, and still grow, I learn from Dr.
Immediately appeared Nicholas Picard and others from Normandy, demanding the woad in the name of Stephen Buckarel and others.
Woad is still grown 'in some districts in England' (Morton, Cyclopaedia of Agriculture, ii.
Dioscorides speaks also of woadin a particular section.
The distinction therefore between indigo-dyers and those who dyed with woad must be very old.
The first German writers who complain of indigenous woad being banished by indigo, and those sovereigns who, by public orders, endeavoured to prevent this change, ascribe the fault to the Netherlanders.
For thus was Woad brought into this realme, and came to good perfection, to the great losse of the French our olde enemies.
When woad is now used it is always in combination with Indigo, to improve the colour.
Since then woad has been little used except as a fermenting agent for the indigo vat.
Bancroft says "Woad alone dyes a blue colour very durable, but less vivid and beautiful than that of Indigo.
No madder or woad is used when much permanency is wanted.
It is supposed that woad was "vitrum," the dye with which CA|sar said almost all the Britons stained their bodies.
There had long been commercial treaties with Castile and Catalonia, who competed for the profits to be won by carrying to England Spanish iron and fruits along with the wine and woadof neighbouring lands.
The woad is then rammed into casks and is ready to be sold to cloth manufacturers.
Small quantities are also obtained from Lonchocarpus eyanescens (west coast of Africa), Polygonum tintorium (China) and the woad plant Isatis tinctoria.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "woad" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
