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"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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John Elliott wrote:I hadn't heard of it before, but I am not surprised. There are all sorts of little craft enterprises keeping old traditions alive in out of the way places in South Carolina. I know there is a tea plantation (the only one in America! according to them) on Wadmalaw island, a couple islands up from Kiawah.
Do you want me to keep my eye open for Carolina Indigo plants? You may have some success growing it in Arkansas, although to compare Arkansas to South Carolina, the Ozarks are equivalent to "upstate", and the swampy "delta" area along the Mississippi would be the equivalent of the Carolina "Low Country".
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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![[Thumbnail for ethel-stein-indigo-23-BLOG.jpg]](/t/37159/a/38262/ethel-stein-indigo-23-BLOG.jpg "Filename: ethel-stein-indigo-23-BLOG.jpg
Description: Ethel Stein. Indigo 23, 1988")
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
Bill Bradbury wrote:Here in the west, we are being inundated with dyer's woad. They seem to love the worst possible dry, rocky conditions and produce so much seed that they take over hillsides. There is an actual eradication program in place, but no one seems to want to use it. We live in weird times!
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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Aside from contemporary textile applications of aizome being used in current fashion, the signature ‘Japan blue’ can now be found being applied to Japanese cedar for use in interior decoration, flooring, and other household accessories.
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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Chris Badgett
Cocreator of Organic Life Guru. Have you seen what's happening over there?
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"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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Darren Cook wrote:Getting jealous...indigo is beautiful but I'm sure growing it in my area would be a challenge.
So I googled dyeing with chokecherries/aronia berries, having those aplenty. Found this straight off....gonna have to try it!
https://pollywollydesigns.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/welcome-to-polly-wolly-designs/
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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As she did in The Giver and later Messenger, in Gathering Blue Lois Lowry challenges readers to imagine what our world could become, how people could evolve, and what could be considered valuable.
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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Ancient dyeplant known for the clarity and fastness of the blue produced. Leaves contain indican which must be oxidized by fermentation to produce the dye. Fresh herbage (strongest when in flower) is steeped in water for 12-48 hours with frequent stirring. A blue sediment will form which is the dye. Needs long growing season.
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Daniel Schneider wrote:For those who are too far North for growing indigo, woad is an excellent alternative. It has the same active ingredients as indigo (in much lower concentrations), but will grow at least as far north as central Sweden. I spent one summer growing and dyeing with it, so if any are interested, I can answer questions they might have about it.
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Daniel, the more information the better, would love to hear more about your experiences with woad.....For those who are too far North for growing indigo, woad is an excellent alternative. It has the same active ingredients as indigo (in much lower concentrations)
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
For some reason I thought that indigo vats were made with fermenting.
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
I would love to grow woad. I've gotten woad seeds several times, but they never germinate for me. Is there a trick to it?
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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), and you pick the outer ones, once they get bigger than about 10 cm long, and leave the center to keep growing. With the number of plants we had, we were able to harvest 5-7.5 kg of leaves at 2-3 week intervals, from mid-August till the second week of October. We'd had an unusually warm autumn that year, and the first few frosts weren't bad enough to seriously knock back the plants, but we decided to sop picking at that point to make sure they had enough energy to get through the winter. The plants hadn't started growing again by the time the spring term ended, so I didn't do any dyeing the second year, but I'd read that the plant is putting most of its energy into seed production in its second year and there isn't as much of the dyeing chemicals in the leaves then anyway. I harvested some of the seeds when I got back in the autumn that year-there were crazy numbers of seed pods, even though we'd only saved 3 of the best plnts for seed- which I coincidentally just found yesterday while organising our yarn/fabric hoard. Have to do a germination test on them. The closet they were in is about the worst one in the entire house to put seeds: a hot water pipe runs through the wall in the back so it' really warm in there. But, if any of them have survived, I think I'll try growing them again this year, and do some more experiments.
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"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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You'll find me in my office. I'll probably be drinking. And reading this tiny ad.
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