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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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Bea on Tuesday, 24 October 2023 14:27

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.

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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.
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Katrin on Wednesday, 25 October 2023 14:38

Yay for the water! And maybe the madder will turn up? Magically appear from out of one of those boxes? (The last few of the moving boxes somehow have a tendency to never get unpacked, it seems. I hope you don't have too many of these!)

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Yay for the water! And maybe the madder will turn up? Magically appear from out of one of those boxes? (The last few of the moving boxes somehow have a tendency to never get unpacked, it seems. I hope you don't have too many of these!)
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