{"id":11,"date":"2005-05-10T19:05:19","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T19:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2018-04-01T13:15:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T17:15:47","slug":"madder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/madder\/","title":{"rendered":"Madder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/dyeing\/Madder800.jpg\" width=\"700\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Madder Plant 2005.\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/dyeing\/Madder800.jpg\" alt=\"Image of madder plant\" width=\"400\" height=\"\" \/> <\/a>   <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/dyeing\/madderIron.jpg\" width=\"700\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Samples dyed with madder.\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/dyeing\/madderIron.jpg\" alt=\"Image of dye samples\" width=\"400\" height=\"\" \/> <\/a> <br \/>\n<small>My madder plant in May 2005 and wool samples dyed with it in 2018<\/small><br \/>\n(I originally bought this madder plant from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellsweep.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Well Sweep Herb Farm<\/a> in NJ.) <\/p>\n<h2 \">Dyer&#8217;s Madder<\/h2>\n<p><em>Rubia tinctorum<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\tPerennial<br \/>\n\tFull sun &#8211; well drained soil<br \/>\n\tHistoric red dye, native to the Mediterranean,  Middle East and Asia Minor.<\/p>\n<p>Used by the British for the &#8220;Red Coats&#8221; during the American revolution and a major player in the famous &#8220;Turkey Red&#8217; dye.<\/p>\n<p>Plants tend to spread their stems all over and these should be covered with soil in places to encourage roots as they are the major source of the dye.<br \/>\nAfter about 3 years the roots are ready for harvest.<br \/>\n(This page was updated in 2018 to include image of dye samples)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My madder plant in May 2005 and wool samples dyed with it in 2018 (I originally bought this madder plant from Well Sweep Herb Farm in NJ.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4491,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/4491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}