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IN my paper in NATURE (February 1, 1900, p. 331) on the blue colour in woad, no account is given of the method by which prepared woad can be used for dyeing wool blue. Some of my friends have suggested that the above-named communication was, in consequence, like the play of Hamlet with the Prince of Denmark left out. The request for information then made as to the modus operandi of the mediæval dyers who used woad and woad alone for dyeing blue has up to the present yielded no response.
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PLOWRIGHT, C. On the Process of Dyeing with Woad Alone. Nature 61, 563–564 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061563d0
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