Nature

On the Process of Dyeing with Woad Alone

IN my paper in NATURE (February 1, 1900, p. 331) on the blue colour in woad, no account is given of the method by which prepared woad can be used for dyeing wool blue. Some of my friends have ...
Nature

On the Blue Colour in Woad

THE old East Anglian proverb, “As blue as wad,” occurs to one visiting the Woad Mill described by Mr. Darwin in NATURE, in 1896 (vol. lv. p. 36), as evidence that woad once yielded a blue dye. As a ...