World's Worst Jobs by Tracey Turner

Author:Tracey Turner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

In the past, colourful cloth wasn’t nearly so easy to come by as it is today – it was a long and difficult process and, in the case of blue dye, an extremely smelly one.

To Dye For

Until the 1600s, woad was the only source of blue dye in Europe. Woad is a plant from the cabbage family, and its leaves produce the dye, which has been used since the Stone Age. There were woad-growing areas in France, Germany, Italy and England and, because blue dye was in high demand, it was an expensive crop that made some Medieval woad growers very rich. But growing it was a lot easier than turning it into dye.

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