Extracting Pigment from Your Woad Plants - and Saving it for Later Use! (Step 5 of My Dream Project)

Looking to harvest your woad and save it for later? Maybe you have too much woad at the end of your season and want to save some for later use? Or maybe you have a small garden and need to build up your stock through next year to dye a major project in one vat? Perhaps you want to give or sell your pigment to someone else for dyeing or painting? Watch this video for a true step-by-step tutorial on how to extract, safely dry, and store your pigment for later! This project has been a labor of love of more than 100 hours of researching, planting and growing, tending, harvesting, and processing my woad garden (plus all of the time spent editing this video!) to demonstrate how I coaxed woad out of my leaves and convinced that pigment to hang out for a while longer... If you're interested in growing your own garden, be sure to check out our other video on planting and harvesting a woad garden:    • How to Grow a Woad Garden - A Plant for Cr...   This class is part of the SCA Kingdom of the Midrealm's online RUM Virtual Learning classes and attending this class will count for 1 credit towards your Licentiate, Graduate, and Adept degrees. However, you don't have to be a member of the SCA to join and learn! http://rum.midrealm.org/ Kind thanks to the Kingdom of the Midrealm for supporting our online learning! http://www.midrealm.org Want to learn more about the SCA? http;//www.sca.org