Small patch of dyer’s woad flowering on Mary Arden’s Farm. Before the invention of synthetic dyes, this was one of the plants widely cultivated for colouring cloth (not to mention the skins of ancient Britons).
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Small patch of dyer’s woad flowering on Mary Arden’s Farm. Before the invention of synthetic dyes, this was one of the plants widely cultivated for colouring cloth (not to mention the skins of ancient Britons).