Word: woad
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...early days as the Gallo-Roman Tolosa. In the Middle Ages the city was governed by councilors called capitouls, chosen from among the leading merchants. In the 15th century the merchant class grew rich from the international trade in pastel, a blue dye made from the locally grown woad plant, and the newly wealthy began to build the brick mansions that still line almost every central city street. The city's hallmarks are gaiety and gastronomy. At the Place du Salin, remnants of the city's 1st century Roman walls support the small, age-darkened medieval house in which...
...School of Industrial Arts. An adjoining burned-out factory has been incorporated into the complex. Its functional brick fa?ade forms the entrance leading to the main hall, temporary exhibition space, auditorium and garden - soon to be filled with dye and fiber plants such as flax, hemp, cotton, indigo and woad. There's also a restaurant, library and shop (created from the pool's filtration room, minus its pipework and machinery...