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by Rex Wailes
Most people associate the blue dye of woad with the Ancient Britons. But how many know what woad is, or that it was still being produced up till a few years ago. In this talk Mr. Wailes describes how he went to Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire in search of the last of the ' Wadmen.'

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