[Sca-cooks] Re: Mel Gibson and indigo.

[Peters, Rise J.]

I'm not sure how folks are getting woad to be permanent, unless they are
just reluctant to use soap.  I paint people with woad on a fairly regular
basis, usually getting well coated with it myself in the process.  It comes
off easily with soap and water, baby wipes, or even just plain water and a
tiny amount of elbow grease.  If your skin is very heavily calloused and
thus porous, you can sometimes get it settled into cracks just like any
other kind of dirt (it can be hard to get out from under your fingernails,
for example) but other than that I've never had any problems.

=Cait

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan li Rous [mailto:stefan at texas.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 12:08 AM
> To: SCA-Cooks maillist
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Re: Mel Gibson and indigo.
>
>
> Kiri said:
> > Reminds me of a fellow, King of another medieval group, the
> Markland Military
> > Militia, who decided that it would be great fun to come to
> Pennsic all done
> > up in woad.  He paraded around in it all during war (war
> was much shorter
> > then) and even had himself carried in (dressed in nothing
> more confining than
> > his woad) for Great Court.  When he got home, he tried to
> get the stuff
> > off...but it wouldn't come off!  He wound up having to go
> to work that way,
> > and this was before they invented even the idea of casual Fridays!!!
>
> I also remember stories of folks doing this, and getting the woad off
> in time for work. However what they didn't count on was the tan they
> had developed - everywhere except for where the woad patterns were!
>
> --
> THLord  Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
> Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas         stefan at texas.net
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