| 11. | Napoleon was forced to dye uniforms with woad, which had an inferior blue colour.
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| 12. | Weimar acquired woad trade privileges in 1438.
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| 13. | Merlin suggests an alliance between the Woads and the Sarmatian knights against the invading Saxons.
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| 14. | He was an expert on natural dyes and cultivated plants such as madder and woad.
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| 15. | Woad was still grown in 1827, when it was used locally for dyeing wool.
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| 16. | Its other common names include dyer's whin, waxen woad and waxen wood.
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| 17. | Dyes included woad for blue and less frequently madder and lichens for reds and purples.
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| 18. | A third theory, according to curator at the woad, which is a common plant.
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| 19. | In Erfurt, the woad-traders gave the funds to found the University of Erfurt.
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| 20. | Small amounts of woad are now grown in the UK and France to supply craft dyers.
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