Is that what is in the movie Brave Heart? Woad?

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Posted by Giselle on February 16, 2000 at 17:01:55:

In Reply to: Re: Anyway, Why Doesn't Anyone Woad Themselves? posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on February 16, 2000 at 03:36:01:

Is that what they have on their faces in the movie Brave Heart? (Just
saw that most marvelous movie again last night) I was wondering where
all the Scots got the blue stuff from... What is woad?

: Woad reaks .... that's the main bummer. And it's really difficult
: to make work right. Woad and indigo (very similar) have to be
: fermented or rotted to get dye release .... and it works in an
: alkaline environment rather than acid . The only people I know of
who
: have gotten it to work are guys at Pennsic who worked for days on a
: suitable layer of ammonia on their bods by carefully drinking lots
and
: bathing little .... and then woading in very hot sweatty weather.
: (They may as well have gone into battle, cause you wouldn't attract
: babes in that state......) There must be a better way, or the
ancient
: Brits tolerated a righteous funk. Remember the time you had really
new
: blue jeans or import indigo cotton, and you got really, really
: sweatty, and ended up with blue thighs for 2 days? That's how it
works
: ..... indigo will stain skin, though it doesn't last as well as
henna.
: I've heard that woad gives one a mild buzz, but that could just be
: Pennsic, beer, and testosterone talking.



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