Woad cultivation meant landowners became very rich, competing for status by building tall towers in their properties.
It appears in the Domesday Book as Wadberge, the ?rst of its name the Old English for
woad and the second part a variation on the spelling of the word for hill or mound.
The meadows nearby were a source of
woad, needed for making the blue dye, indigo.
Drugstores were running short of banlangen, a traditional Chinese medicine for colds made from the roots of the
woad plant, used as a blue dye from ancient times.
gum as she waits for the shuttle, on the
woad couple talking loudly and
1 Ancient Britons would go into battle naked, except for a coat of dye called "
woad".
BIG MONEY From left, the Murdochs, the Normans and Madonna and Guy FIERY With girlfriend Oksana before their bitter break-up
WOAD AND WOE Gibson in Braveheart, far left, and in his police mugshot LOYAL Robyn, pictured in happier times with Gibson, stood by him in his court battles.
That's Coalition shorthand for the need for us to shut up over the massive flooding in lest we incite the Far Right illiterati to smother their faces with red paint and
woad as they assemble for punch-ups throughout Britain.
A visit to Old Mother Silvertoes for a pot of
woad to pour into the river water soon solves the problem by turning the Romans blue.
I discovered that
woad was used for the protection of Celtic warriors, and thought it would be interesting to use something that had a purpose.
Increasingly, the result is a
woad in which everyone watches the same stories and sings the same songs.
Besides the natural whitish color of its wool, the colors in this tapestry were created with dyes from five types of plants: fresh madder, fresh weld, dried sappan, selected dried bark of trees, and composted
woad.