Woad--Sarah's Natural Colour

Links

Joybilee Farm -a Canadian Farm that grows natural fibers and natural dyes.  The site that hosts www.woad.ca.

www.woad.org.uk  -Teresinha Roberts's site from UK, with good descriptions of extracting the woad pigment and dyeing with the leaves.  Teresinha's unique work with natural dyes and hand made paper is beautiful.


reciprocal links welcome



Acknowledgements:  

I have benefited from personal correspondence, phone calls, emails, gifts of Isatis tinctoria seeds, and dye samples, from the following natural dyers: 

Dr. Karen Diadick Casselman, of Cheverie, Nova Scotia

Charllotte Kwon of Maiwa Handprints, and Maiwa Productions, Vancouver, B.C.

Teresinha Roberts, of Birmingham, UK

Michelle Jack, of Essex, UK

Ellen Kjellmo, of Norway

Marit from Norway

I am indebted to Jan and Trudy van Stralen and Louet North America, Ontario for the gift of Trudy’s book Indigo, Madder, and Marigold (InterweavePress,1993 )

Thank you to Mona Boucher of Calgary, Alberta for help in locating journal articles.

Thank you, to Dr. Bob Corbeil, Emeritus Professor of Math and Computer Science, U. of California, SanDiego  (Christina lake B.C.), for the suggestion of using three trials for each variable. Dr. Corbeil's specialty is tomato genetics and statistics. 

I would like to thank my family at Joybilee Farm for their support, encouragement, and yarn. My Great Grand Uncle, Alexander Crum Brown of EdinboroughDr. Alexander Crum Brown of U of Edinborough for his example of the use of woad in science in the model NaCl model with felted woad and madder balls by Dr. Alexander Crum Brownof NaCl using woad and madder dyed, felted wool balls and double pointed knitting needles. And for his theorizing on methods of notating molecular structure using lines and balls (On the Theory of Chemical Combination,1861), modern chemistry is indebted.

Website credits:  Thank you to my mom, Christine Dalziel, for setting up the templates on this website.  Writing is the work and copyright of Sarah Dalziel; Photographs are the work and copyright of Sarah Dalziel except where Sarah is in the picture -- those photographs were taken by Christine Dalziel.

This work has been funded by the generous people who purchased my Isatis tinctoria seeds and my woad dyed scarves and shawls.  Thank you.



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