{"id":4477,"date":"2018-04-01T13:09:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T17:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/?p=4477"},"modified":"2018-04-01T13:09:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T17:09:15","slug":"dyeing-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/dyeing-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Dyeing Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been exploring natural dyes with my Harrisville Koehler Yarn to use in mixed bundles for my tapestry. These small balls were dyed with madder, and iron &#038; black tea. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/dyeing\/madderIron.jpg\" width=\"700\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Madder, Iron and Tea Samples.\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/dyeing\/madderIron.jpg\" alt=\"Image of dyeing result samples\" width=\"400\" height=\"\" \/> <\/a> <br \/> Samples of dyeing with madder, and with rusty iron and tea<\/p>\n<p>The one on the upper right is just iron and tea in a jar left to set for days. The others use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethemmott.com\/blog\/madder\/\" > madder from a plant<\/a> I grew and harvested years ago. The top left ball is pre mordanted with alum and a bit of cream of tarter &#8211; the lower left was a mixture of iron, tea, and madder all together,  the lower right was pre mordanted with alum, then soaked in the just the tea\/iron mix for days and then into the madder dye overnight. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going for exact dye recipes as I did years ago but rather letting the magic take me where it does. And it is magic!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been exploring natural dyes with my Harrisville Koehler Yarn to use in mixed bundles for my tapestry. These small balls were dyed with madder, and iron &#038; black tea. Samples of dyeing with madder, and with rusty iron and tea The one on the upper right is just iron and tea in a&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/dyeing-tests\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyeing","category-fiber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=4477"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4498,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4477\/revisions\/4498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}