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We have done a great deal of work on the woad website. It is now hosted by 1&1 as www.woad.org.uk. There are new photos, better instructions and new subjects. We also have a shopping cart selling woad powder and woad seeds. We welcome your comments

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To Do List

- Combination dyeing with woad, weld and madder

- Try different fibres (silk, bamboo, soya, flax, mohair, Black Diamond bamboo)

- Experiment with Sheep’s wool (different breeds and colours, fleece vs. yarn)

- Use ammonia as an alkali in place of soda ash

- Use fresh woad leaves in a liquidiser

- Make and couch woad balls

- Dye buttons

~~- Dye with seeds~~

- Dye using boiled leaves with alum after & before extracting pigment for different pinks

- burnish folded woad-dyed cotton with mallet

- stitch resist on folded silk fabric

- fill jam jars carefully in woad vat and dip small portions of Dupion silk in jars to create blue circles

- circles of paste resist applied with chicken feather

- make a blue spiral against white background (draw spiral, lay string over it, sew under string, bunch spiral, dip only spiral) Not sure whether it will work!

- gilt over woad dyed fabric

- a resist that produces alternate stripes of woad blue and madder red

- try ‘shindori’ (making wrinkles by hand over a wine bottle whilst winding cloth)

- wind yarn over foam polystyrene balls, dye and unwind

- make prints of woad vat scum on handmade paper

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