Thank you so much for this video. Really helpful! I’m determined to harvest pigment from my woad this year. I started a few plants several years ago. I did nothing with it, and let it go to seed. I did keep all the seeds, which can be great for eco printing! I have grown Japanese indigo for several years and have gotten my pigment extraction process pretty down. But it’s clear that the process is quite different with woad! Have you tried gently pouring the top liquid off the jars? This is what I do with the settling pigment from Japanese indigo, and it’s much faster. Going to try my first extraction this weekend, and I feel so much more confident after watching your whole video. I’m curious to see what my pigment yield may be. The plants are big and robust, but growing in partial shade.

1:01:49 I know why! There are other clearer depictions of medieval field workers in long rolled up braies where you can tell that rather than a slit, it's a cord hiking up the rolled up pant hem attaching to the waistband

I don'd get why you must think you need to make excuses for solid, and ancient cultural tradition to accommodated the absolute insanity of gender theory, which is based on a vile and destructive like based on the fake research of Dr. John MONEY!

The Woad was so powerfully filled with Pigment that it dyed your 5 gallon bucket blue before you even processed it! Good job! lol.

It's amazing to me that some medieval person centuries ago stumbled upon this plant in the wild and thought to themselves "I wonder If I can make blue dye out of this?"....It's crazy when you think about it.

Wtf means "traditionally identified as male" and "traditionally identified as female" 🤣🤣🤣😅

funny husband :)

Thanks so much for a really informative session. I'm sewing a wardrobe for someone developing her first persona and this both gave us quite a few ideas and lots to think about.

Oh, ffs wokism is rotting people's brains.

I am wondering how the dye actually came out and what the process of dying with the extracted pigment is compared too using the fresh leaves.

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A good and informative video i return to a lot in my art and research, i also enjoy sharing with folks who need visual resources for being able to picture what certain garments look like. Also has made me a bit more scrupulous in looking for manuscripts of the era when finding references. Im curious if there are place to read more about the "cingulum" since trying yo search/google for it mostly turns up roman examples, but i will probably need to do more digging.

Thank you -- as a writer working on a project set during this approximate period, this was incredibly useful!

Missed things in my own look ups research so to not lose who taught ones in mine own line .. old world mostly yah! Fest!? Not I any familiar with coz- play.. nope hi ya? A mason?

I can't even go into a history video without hearing about inclusiveness and identifying as the wrong gender.. What a shame.

I just extracted indigo from hair powder. Just as a proof of concept. Next, it's time to harvest some suffruticosa, I only have two plants , but I'm hoping to make them bush out quite a bit. They also go evergreen where I live so, that's awesome... 😂 thanks for showing me the gifts of woad; Woad is illicit here due to it's 'invasive' nature.

Oh God... even in a video on mediaeval clothing content creators now feel obliged to pay obeisance to the current ideological madness...

What tf do you mean that you dobt want to promote the binary system? Theres only two genders - male and female! Thats a fact! And if someone think that hes not the gender that he is, then hes a mentally deviated person! I came for science, not for your intellectually and morally lobotomated political idiotocracy.

I hate to dissapoint you, but the Chartres Cathedral door figures are not showing "real" dress. At that time the craftsmen had stylised ways to display clothing (for example the pleats, they do not represent real pleats, but the fact that the stone was worked with all possible intricacy) and had more to do with craftmanship (like: how many fine patterns can we pack onto a surface?) than with showing real life. I studied medieval cathredrals ...

While this presentation was interesting in terms of discussing garments, the historical comments are downright shocking and ignorant. Why does the fact ladies are not wearing wimples and headscarves appeal to you more? Do you feel it’s limiting to women’s “liberation”? The truth is braids and head coverings are worn because these people lived mostly outdoors. Braiding and head coverings and hats are popular because they keep your hair clean and help regulate temperature in days before climate control and urban development. Considering, bathing was a laborious task, and most people didn’t bathe daily (and it’s not true that they NEVER bathed), washing long hair is even more of a chore. Women wore dresses and men wore chausses not out of some kind of inequality. Women squat to urinate, and men can do so standing. Considering there are no enclosed bathrooms or bathrooms period (except the odd garderobe), a woman wearing pants/chausses would require her to expose her private areas to relieve herself, where a skirt will permit her to remain covered while doing so. Also, another disturbing comment was regarding the wardrobes of wealthier women being extravagant and precluding work. Are you insinuating wealthy women didn’t work? Perhaps they didn’t do physical labor, but I promise you, managing an estate and dozens of servants is no small task. That women’s work was mostly domestic (prior to the advent of Feminist theory that women’s work is undervalued unless it’s performed outside of the home in direct competition to men’s work), does not preclude its importance. But this again feeds into your trying to insert post-modern, trans and gender ideology into the past as something horrendous that we’ve “evolved” from. You cannot even discuss religious vestments without somehow casting dispersions on them as cretinous people and that you would never force religion on your viewers and have limited religious depictions of an age steeped in deep religiosity. If neither you nor your viewership can handle these facts, then you need to explore a different time period.

I did woad in the 90’s. There was no KZbin. Very little written either. Spin-off did a story about my humorous saga. It was quite a project. I may grow woad again and try this. Thank you

Would the “woad juice” be useful as a dye bath?

I understand how emotional this is for you.

Woad is a labor of love, but like all labors of love, so worth it.

I’ve only used fresh leaves. This is something that will be valuable to me. The first time I grew woad, cabbage worms attacked it.

To me it smells like skunk as you’re doing the vat. Regardless of what it smells like, once you smell it it is instantly recognizable.

Thank you ma'am, this was magic. Extracting cosmic blue die out of ordinary green woad. Hence making life rich experience. Seems like we humans have the same ability to bring interesting color out of our old color. Very kind of you n your photographer, goid day. Jussojuan

This whole thing is brilliant. Thanks for the inspiration!

Fabulous video. Thank you for slowing it down for us!

Noice

It’s nice to see the process, but have you written down the process?

This is a stellar class. Fantastic presentation.

Wow this video is so so thorough. thanks I so appreciate your step by step process. these are just the tutorials I love. ❤

Could you put it in a blender, on the chop setting? Thank you for showing us the process.

Is Woad the same as comfrey?

It is not true that the COLOR purple was reserved for Royals by sumptuary laws. Royal purple is Tyrean purple. Tyrean purple can range from fuschia to dark red to reddish purple. Orchil ( a lichen dye) makes purple as does alkanet. You can also achieve purple by dying something red and then dipping it in indigo or woad until it is the shade of purple that you want. None or this would be reserved as "royal purple".

For rapid cooling try… prepared ice bottles/cooler bottles, 2 L coke bottles filled with ice and place directly in the pot with the woad.😉

This was awesome! Thank you for the detailed lecture on the 12th century! 💜💜💜💜💜

Lasted to .06.

Could you speed separation of the pigment from the juice using filter paper or a centrifuge?

Good video.

Thank you sooooo much!

I’m also thinking of adding spring arms deta attachable of course just for a little bit of feedback I don’t really know how I’m going to mount them yet if you have any ideas let me know thank you

You have the right idea I went down to Home Depot and picked up medium metal jigsaw blades it cuts like butter seriously

I’ll never use an angle grinder ever again it’s messy and it’s dangerous

Oh how to get through that rim use bolt cutters

Hey I’m in the process of making my pell I’ll take a pic when it’s all done thank you

I was enthralled with this process because I know that woad was used by our Brit ancestors to paint themselves before battle. It is antiseptic and helps coagulate a wound. It is an essential ingredient for healing salves applied to psoriasis and excema in Trad Chinese herbal remedies too. I had no idea how complex the extraction process is.... it explains why woad pigment is so expensive! What blows me away is this..... how was this process discovered? It is not as if you could accidentally discover it, is it? Did our ancestors have advanced chemistry knowledge? Amazingly ancient, well preserved graves, found in the Gobi desert, revealed blonde/red haired women dressed in tartan fabrics which included blues, yellows, greens and reds. I am inclined to imagine that there is much about our history which has been either lost or obscured by cataclysm or time. Thank you for taking the time and trouble to experiment and record your efforts. Big love from a village close to Stonehenge in UK. xx

This was super helpful, thanks for sharing!