{"id":47,"date":"2021-10-16T13:59:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T13:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/?p=47"},"modified":"2021-11-08T18:59:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T18:59:20","slug":"the-colors-of-stonemarche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/2021\/10\/16\/the-colors-of-stonemarche\/","title":{"rendered":"The Colors of Stonemarche"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">(or: What color is the bottom of a rabbit hole? Probably brown.)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignleft columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-9728-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"202\" data-link=\"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/2021\/10\/16\/the-colors-of-stonemarche\/img-9728-1-2\/#main\" class=\"wp-image-202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-9728-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-9728-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-9728-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-9728-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-9728-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Mushrooms and berries<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-9745-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"203\" data-link=\"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/2021\/10\/16\/the-colors-of-stonemarche\/img-9745-2\/#main\" class=\"wp-image-203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-9745-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-9745-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-9745-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-9745-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-9745-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Bedstraw<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-9781-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"205\" data-link=\"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/2021\/10\/16\/the-colors-of-stonemarche\/img-9781-1\/#main\" class=\"wp-image-205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-9781-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-9781-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-9781-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-9781-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG-9781-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Lichens<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC_5467-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"206\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC_5467-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/2021\/10\/16\/the-colors-of-stonemarche\/dsc_5467-3\/#main\" class=\"wp-image-206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC_5467-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC_5467-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC_5467-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC_5467-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC_5467-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC_5467-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Some of the Colors of Stonemarche<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"> During the pandemic, I spent a LOT of time in my woods- wandering around, enjoying the silence, trying to not just stand in the middle of the woods and SCREAM.. it was also my exercise. It all started with an oak gall.. I was in my woods in late August 2021, looking for oak galls to use as Roman medicine for my Weird Roman Medicines display. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">What I found WAS an oak gall, but it was like none I had seen before! Most of my oak galls are the thin, hollow type which are pretty useless for anything. I went to squish it to see if it was solid, and it bled scarlet red all over my thumb, and stained it. I grabbed this one gall and found another one like it- and decided to try dyeing some leftover wool with it&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">the wool turned out super interesting, so I went back to that spot to try and find more- could NOT find more, but found a cute purple mushroom- googled it to see what kind of mushroom it was (Blewit), and read that it might be useful for dyeing (that is, by the way, a lie).  *Poof* Rabbit Hole Obtained! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Thus began the Colors of Stonemarche Project, a very colorful rabbit hole of &#8220;Hey, I wonder what THIS does!&#8221;.  Before this project, I had only ever used any kind of natural dyes ONCE, and that was almost ten years ago- and I haven&#8217;t ever dyed wool I spun.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I have been gathering natural materials in my woods, my yard, behind the kid&#8217;s hockey rink where I spend 5 days a week, and the nature preserve next door, and testing them to dye wool with. I have handspun most of the wool, and thus far mostly pre-mordanted with alum (because it&#8217;s easier to do that way en masse). I ended up buying a couple hanks of undyed wool because my experiments were outpacing my spinning ability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Additional mordants include iron and copper (both made by myself- rusty iron I found in the woods in water, and old SCA coins I had that are pure copper). All dyestuffs have been collected from the wild\/non-cultivated in New Hampshire. While I *could* grow actual period dyestuffs, finding things in the woods and playing Mad Scientist is way more fun \ud83d\ude42  *ALL* dyestuffs are found near my home in Stonemarche, and none are cultivated- that&#8217;s my personal rule for this project, some things are escaped cultivated plants but were found way back in the woods away from any residences. I have mostly been sticking to seasonal dyestuffs thus far- mushrooms and plants that won&#8217;t persist through the winter. Most of the mushrooms are non-period sources of dye, but as they are ephemeral in nature I am doing them first and working towards more period and non-seasonal items (eg tree bark, tree leaves, etc).  Following this post, I will be explaining methods, categories, and showing photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"background-color:#cdfbba\">Click through to the pages below for the full set of the Colors of Stonemarche experiments- Natural Dyes Parts 1, 2, 3, and The Quest for Berberine. <strong>Photos<\/strong> are in Part 1, <strong>Dyestuff lists<\/strong> and <strong>bibliography<\/strong> in Part 2, <strong>Thoughts and Discoveries<\/strong> in Part 3, and the <strong>Quest for Berberine<\/strong> is its own whole party!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-faustas-facets wp-block-embed-faustas-facets\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"L9NaWvGvvv\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/2021\/10\/16\/natural-dyes-part-1\/\">Natural Dyes Part 1 (The Photos)<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Natural Dyes Part 1 (The Photos)&#8221; &#8212; Faustas Facets\" src=\"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/2021\/10\/16\/natural-dyes-part-1\/embed\/#?secret=kcZ5yNo6lN#?secret=L9NaWvGvvv\" data-secret=\"L9NaWvGvvv\" width=\"545\" height=\"307\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-faustas-facets wp-block-embed-faustas-facets\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"3XjJ5MEolm\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/2021\/10\/16\/natural-dyes-part-2\/\">Natural Dyes Part 2 (Dyestuff lists and methods)<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Natural Dyes Part 2 (Dyestuff lists and methods)&#8221; &#8212; Faustas Facets\" src=\"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/2021\/10\/16\/natural-dyes-part-2\/embed\/#?secret=gn2HbWIGId#?secret=3XjJ5MEolm\" data-secret=\"3XjJ5MEolm\" width=\"545\" height=\"307\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-faustas-facets wp-block-embed-faustas-facets\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Lr9oXFIqR5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/2021\/10\/16\/natural-dyes-part-3\/\">Natural Dyes Part 3 (Thoughts and discoveries)<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Natural Dyes Part 3 (Thoughts and discoveries)&#8221; &#8212; Faustas Facets\" src=\"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/2021\/10\/16\/natural-dyes-part-3\/embed\/#?secret=OII3ZvoasD#?secret=Lr9oXFIqR5\" data-secret=\"Lr9oXFIqR5\" width=\"545\" height=\"307\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(or: What color is the bottom of a rabbit hole? Probably brown.) Introduction During the pandemic, I spent a LOT of time in my woods- wandering around, enjoying the silence, trying to not just stand in the middle of the woods and SCREAM.. it was also my exercise. It all started with an oak gall.. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/2021\/10\/16\/the-colors-of-stonemarche\/\" class=\"more-link\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenofjen.com\/fausta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}