woad
Urtica de Vijfsprong is a biodynamic farm and an anthroposophic living and housing community on a visit at Studio Claudy Jongstra where working with wool is soothing and healing. From washing and processing the wool to harvesting the dye plants and colouring the wool, the outcome is always surprising and magical. Marit Geluk made the short film 'De kracht van wol'.
- Film by Marit Geluk
In one ident Studio Claudy Jongstra made for the VPRO, the studio puts the spotlight on woad. The pigment plant that Jongstra, together with biodynamic farmers from the Beersche Hoeve in Brabant, has started growing again after a hundred years of absence. Woad produces an intensely beautiful and layered blue dye in a dye bath that flows and colors as freely as before.
Claudy Jongstra created two idents at the request of the VPRO.