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The cultivation of woad was especially profitable and was such an important source of income that it came to be called “blue gold”.
Indigo (from the Latin indicum, that is ,coming from India), on the other hand, was obtained from the plant Indigofera tinctoria and began to be used to dye cloth around 1498 when, tahnks to Vasco de Gama’s discovery of the maritime passages to India, it began to be used on a massive scale in Europe.
In the Roman civilization in fact, indigo was known as a pigment for painting but was not used as a cloth dye, because the process for dissolving it was still unknown.
