{"id":1532,"date":"2021-11-13T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mandalinarossa.com\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2022-04-05T15:44:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T15:44:34","slug":"dyeing-wool-with-virginia-creeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/?p=1532","title":{"rendered":"Dyeing Wool with Virginia Creeper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/3b2ea6a5f681bd18e1071fe11c5249823a658a07-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/3b2ea6a5f681bd18e1071fe11c5249823a658a07-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/3b2ea6a5f681bd18e1071fe11c5249823a658a07-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/3b2ea6a5f681bd18e1071fe11c5249823a658a07-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/3b2ea6a5f681bd18e1071fe11c5249823a658a07-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/3b2ea6a5f681bd18e1071fe11c5249823a658a07-1140x758.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/3b2ea6a5f681bd18e1071fe11c5249823a658a07.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"851\" data-id=\"1125\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cf099687ee251e7cd1e3cfb0b69c6ca8643adb85.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cf099687ee251e7cd1e3cfb0b69c6ca8643adb85.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cf099687ee251e7cd1e3cfb0b69c6ca8643adb85-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cf099687ee251e7cd1e3cfb0b69c6ca8643adb85-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cf099687ee251e7cd1e3cfb0b69c6ca8643adb85-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cf099687ee251e7cd1e3cfb0b69c6ca8643adb85-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cf099687ee251e7cd1e3cfb0b69c6ca8643adb85-1140x758.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"851\" data-id=\"1127\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ee1595e1c3e90ae9d2674e65c68c89cc79297764.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ee1595e1c3e90ae9d2674e65c68c89cc79297764.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ee1595e1c3e90ae9d2674e65c68c89cc79297764-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ee1595e1c3e90ae9d2674e65c68c89cc79297764-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ee1595e1c3e90ae9d2674e65c68c89cc79297764-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ee1595e1c3e90ae9d2674e65c68c89cc79297764-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ee1595e1c3e90ae9d2674e65c68c89cc79297764-1140x758.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our front fence is covered with Virginia creeper \/ <strong>Parthenocissus quinquefolia <\/strong> (which I mistakenly thought was hedera helix).Now that it\u2019s fall, we pruned it as it grew vigorously during summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With all the leaves and berries leftover from the plant, I got my hands on dyeing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-I filled a stainless steel pot with the leaves and berries,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-added rainwater,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-simmered for about 40 minutes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-with the plant material left in pot, added alum mordanted wool skeins,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-simmered for additional 40 minutes or so,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-left the pot overnight to cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The color turned into a lovely bright green-yellow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our front fence is covered with Virginia creeper \/ Parthenocissus quinquefolia (which I mistakenly thought was hedera helix).Now that it\u2019s fall, we pruned it as it grew vigorously during summer. With all the leaves and berries leftover from the plant, I got my hands on dyeing! -I filled a stainless steel pot with the leaves and berries, -added rainwater,&nbsp; -simmered for about 40 minutes, -with the plant material left in pot, added alum mordanted wool skeins, -simmered for additional 40 minutes or so, -left the pot overnight to cool. The color turned into a lovely bright green-yellow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[415],"tags":[73,428,79],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crafting","tag-crafting","tag-natural-dyeing","tag-virginia-creeper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2487,"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/2487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}