{"id":1755,"date":"2011-10-21T14:17:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T18:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nobo.kk1x.net\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2011-10-21T14:17:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T18:17:56","slug":"kudzu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobohandweavers.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/21\/kudzu\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudzu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In commenting on my nettle post, Ted made the analogy of nettles being a UK weed in the same vein as US kudzu. Then, as is my nature, I started to wonder if kudzu can be made into fiber.<\/p>\n<p>It can!<\/p>\n<p>Check this out:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/kudzucloth.web.fc2.com\/cn43\/pg200.html<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to click along the top of the photo to see all the steps.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also discovered that dogbane is a fiber plant (aka Indian Hemp) and can be harvested in the winter:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qt-oEanNwkg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Roots School, who produced this video, is offering a two day workshop this December that&#8217;s very tempting:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.rootsvt.com\/fibers-wild-landscape-0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, this website with a post about milkweed stalks:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/stringativity.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/bast-fibers.html<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to our Fibershed project, I feel like I&#8217;ve fallen down the rabbit hole!<br \/>\nAnd here I was feeling bad that we don&#8217;t have cotton growing in our area&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In commenting on my nettle post, Ted made the analogy of nettles being a UK weed in the same vein as US kudzu. Then, as is my nature, I started to wonder if kudzu can be made into fiber. It&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobohandweavers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobohandweavers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobohandweavers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobohandweavers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobohandweavers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobohandweavers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobohandweavers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobohandweavers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobohandweavers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}