in my research on tattooing in early history I looked at the picts or painted people of what is now Scotland
I found a interesting conspiracy
the whole ''woad'' as ink is propaganda
yes there was a industry of fabric dyers using woad(for blue) and madder(for red) but
IT DOES NOT WORK ON SKIN
but the British had industry competing with continental woad growers
so ''our ancestors used woad '' was born
only two sources ,Ceasar and Pliny ,both writing in Latin , mentioning people looking like painted the shade of ''glass'' ,for Romans a blueish greenish color ,no mention of woad at all
but guess where the center of woad growing happened?
In Viking Age levels at archaeological digs at York, a dye shop with remains of both woad and madder have been excavated and dated to the 10th century. In medieval times, centres of woad cultivation lay in Lincolnshire and Somerset in England, Jülich and the Erfurt area in Thuringia in Germany, Piedmont and Tuscany in Italy, and Gascogne, Normandy, the Somme Basin (from Amiens to Saint-Quentin), Brittany and, above all, Languedoc in France. This last region, in the triangle created by Toulouse, Albi, and Carcassonne, was for a long time the most productive of woad, or "pastel" as it was known there, one writer commenting that "woad […] hath made that country the happiest and richest in Europe."[
The prosperous woad merchants of Toulouse displayed their affluence in splendid mansions, many of which still stand, as the Hôtel de Bernuy and the Hôtel d'Assézat. One merchant, Jean de Bernuy, a Spanish Jew who had fled the inquisition, was credit-worthy enough to be the main guarantor of the ransomed King Francis I after his capture at the Battle of Pavia by Charles V of Spain.[22] Much of the woad produced here was used for the cloth industry in southern France,[24] but it was also exported via Bayonne, Narbonne and Bordeaux to Flanders, the Low Countries, Italy, and above all Britain and Spain.
is the chateau from the woad heyday?
I found a interesting conspiracy
the whole ''woad'' as ink is propaganda
yes there was a industry of fabric dyers using woad(for blue) and madder(for red) but
IT DOES NOT WORK ON SKIN
but the British had industry competing with continental woad growers
so ''our ancestors used woad '' was born
only two sources ,Ceasar and Pliny ,both writing in Latin , mentioning people looking like painted the shade of ''glass'' ,for Romans a blueish greenish color ,no mention of woad at all
but guess where the center of woad growing happened?
In Viking Age levels at archaeological digs at York, a dye shop with remains of both woad and madder have been excavated and dated to the 10th century. In medieval times, centres of woad cultivation lay in Lincolnshire and Somerset in England, Jülich and the Erfurt area in Thuringia in Germany, Piedmont and Tuscany in Italy, and Gascogne, Normandy, the Somme Basin (from Amiens to Saint-Quentin), Brittany and, above all, Languedoc in France. This last region, in the triangle created by Toulouse, Albi, and Carcassonne, was for a long time the most productive of woad, or "pastel" as it was known there, one writer commenting that "woad […] hath made that country the happiest and richest in Europe."[
The prosperous woad merchants of Toulouse displayed their affluence in splendid mansions, many of which still stand, as the Hôtel de Bernuy and the Hôtel d'Assézat. One merchant, Jean de Bernuy, a Spanish Jew who had fled the inquisition, was credit-worthy enough to be the main guarantor of the ransomed King Francis I after his capture at the Battle of Pavia by Charles V of Spain.[22] Much of the woad produced here was used for the cloth industry in southern France,[24] but it was also exported via Bayonne, Narbonne and Bordeaux to Flanders, the Low Countries, Italy, and above all Britain and Spain.
is the chateau from the woad heyday?
