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Freshly Dug Out.
These are madder roots from our garden, freshly dug out. They'll make part of the second part of our experiment on madder dyeing - using different batches of madder with the same water, and see how different they will come out.
Madder is said to get better the longer it matures - first in the ground, then once harvested, resting time of a few years is also said to make it better. But I figure that too-fresh madder may be better than no madder at all...
It will be dried now and then ground up, and I hope for a yield of at least 30 g afterwards (though in a pinch, 10 g would be enough). It would definitely be nice to have some more samples to test. So - do you happen to have a bit of dried madder to spare? Would you be willing to donate 10 to 30 g of it for our experiment?
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Hi Katrin,
For our experiment - collected the first creek water today. From the Lahnbach in Schwaz (Tyrol).
I remember that I had some madder - had that for YEARS. Unfortunately I don´t know where that ended up. I moved recently and still haven´t managed to find everything that I put in the moving boxes.