Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 322William Blackwood, 1977 - England |
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Page 119
... Woad , history books never explain how our rude fore- fathers contrived to make the blue paint . The extraction of textile dye from the plant is a long and difficult process , and there is no record of its having been precipitated in ...
... Woad , history books never explain how our rude fore- fathers contrived to make the blue paint . The extraction of textile dye from the plant is a long and difficult process , and there is no record of its having been precipitated in ...
Page 120
... Woad on on white wool mordanted with ashes , became known as Perse . The word at first signified the blue colour and later cloth dyed to that hue - a repetition of the Turkey red procedure . Many a battle was fought to maintain the high ...
... Woad on on white wool mordanted with ashes , became known as Perse . The word at first signified the blue colour and later cloth dyed to that hue - a repetition of the Turkey red procedure . Many a battle was fought to maintain the high ...
Page 124
... Woad , it seemed logical to assume that in this respect the New World had merely imitated the Old . In the end , Woad supplied a way out of the difficulty , for I discovered that the early settlers had cultivated the plant along with ...
... Woad , it seemed logical to assume that in this respect the New World had merely imitated the Old . In the end , Woad supplied a way out of the difficulty , for I discovered that the early settlers had cultivated the plant along with ...
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