{"id":822,"date":"2012-04-07T13:41:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T13:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=822"},"modified":"2012-04-12T18:03:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T18:03:41","slug":"alchemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"Alchemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/05\/garden\/a-new-generation-discovers-grow-it-yourself-dyes.html?pagewanted=4&amp;_r=2&amp;sq=Colors&amp;scp=1\">Natural dyeing is still gathering steam throughout the US. \u00a0<\/a><br \/>\nWhen we leave here I hope to take some weld and madder with me to start a new dye garden in Essex.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_823\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/NY-Times-NATURALFIBERDYE-slide-ILMJ-thumbWide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-823\" class=\"size-full wp-image-823 \" title=\"NY Times NATURALFIBERDYE-slide-ILMJ-thumbWide\" src=\"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/NY-Times-NATURALFIBERDYE-slide-ILMJ-thumbWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from NYTimes of Sasha Duerr&#39;s dye liquors<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At the end of summer, \u00a0I hope to find some local plums to make Damson gin! (Can you guess I&#8217;ve been watching Masterpiece Theatre&#8217;s &#8220;Marple&#8221; while knitting?&#8230;the one with Geraldine McEwan!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/damson-gin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-824\" title=\"damson gin\" src=\"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/damson-gin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And a visit to the NY Botanical Gardens in the Bronx yielded a day of intense color and a rise in my own creative sap by seeing the glories of spring!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Photo-Mar-29-2-24-32-PM-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-813\" title=\"Photo Mar 29, 2 24 32 PM-001\" src=\"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Photo-Mar-29-2-24-32-PM-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"560\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Photo-Mar-29-3-19-49-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-815\" title=\"Photo Mar 29, 3 19 49 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Photo-Mar-29-3-19-49-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"560\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have an armillary sphere in my garden, and now I want to display it like this, on a pedestal, and grow a vine through it! \u00a0This was my &#8216;take away&#8217; gem of the day!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/P1011598.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/P1011598.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natural dyeing is still gathering steam throughout the US. \u00a0 When we leave here I hope to take some weld and madder with me to start a new dye garden in Essex. At the end of summer, \u00a0I hope to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/?p=822\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyeing","category-gardening","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}