{"id":156,"date":"2008-07-11T18:59:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T17:59:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-03-13T10:40:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T09:40:26","slug":"wild-dyes-wild-plants-to-dye-clothes-by-andy-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wild-dyes-wild-plants-to-dye-clothes-by-andy-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Dyes – Wild plants to Dye clothes By Andy Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you were a clothing maker back in the early 19th century you would have had to rely on nature if you wished to change the colour of any of your garments; using roots and leaves and even dried insects. It was not until 1856 when William Henry Perkin artificially produced a lavender dye, purely by accident whilst messing about with coal tar<\/a> that the now widespread usage of synthetic dyes transformed the clothing industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you were a clothing maker back in the early 19th century you would have had to rely on nature if you wished to change the colour of any of your garments; using roots and […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[731,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-wild"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t