Jamie Jamison remembers her early introduction to woad. She was on a road trip with her parents, stopping at a Stuckey’s shop and seeing a tiny souvenir Navajo rug that illustrated where the natural ...

Archaeologists in Belgium uncovered traces of woad, madder, and pastel during excavations in Brussels and Mechelen, ...

When you are a practicing alchemist, as Sasha Duerr is, strangers will often ask you to demonstrate your powers by heating up a caldron in the yard. It’s a living, and Duerr is usually happy to give ...

Woad, the plant whose deep blue pigment was used as a warpaint by the ancient Britons to frighten their enemies, is to be farmed commercially in Britain for the first time in 500 years. Large-scale ...