Question: is woad the same as indigo?
Answer: What's in a name? Indigo or Woad. ... This is a good question as the difference is really one of name rather than dye, as the blue dye in woad is the same as the blue dye in indigo, so woad is just another source of indigo-blue dye. Woad was, and still is, the native European source of indigo blue dye.