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Woad

1976 , Kelvedon (Essex)

Cat no. 836

Woad

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Television item about Jill Goodwin who grows woad and produces the dye to colour the wool she spins and weaves.

Mrs Jill Goodwin of Ashmund Farm picks the woad she grows on her land while being interviewed by Jean Goodman. Mrs Goodwin describes and demonstrates the process of producing the blue dye and colouring wool. She talks of her interest in woad and its history. Finally, she spins the wool and then weaves it on a hand loom.

Keywords

Dyeing; Spinning; Weaving; Woad

Background Information

The following information is from the website, www.woad.org.uk: 'Woad has a long association with East Anglia, the land of the Iceni tribe and of its famous leader Boudicca (photo courtesy of Joanna Richards). Manda Scott in her four-book series on Boudicca has the Iceni using woad on their bodies before going to battle. Woad is a well-known antiseptic and it may have been used to help heal battle wounds. Woad was not used only for textile dyes and, for example the illustrators of the Lindisfarne Gospels (late 7th/early 8th century) used a woad-based pigment for the blue. Evidence for use of dyestuffs and vegetative remains of woad plants were found in Viking age York (9th/10th century).'

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