historical – eXtreme Plants

The Hunt of the Unicorn tapestry, dyed with weld (yellow), madder (red), and woad (blue). At the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)

Flights of whimsy: Isatis tinctoria – no sequences but a great song

September 15, 2017 cheeseman 0

And now for something completely different… woad. This is stuff that I learned by accident (sort of) while preparing the real “science” page for Isatis tinctoria. […]