{"id":9964,"date":"2020-11-01T08:58:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T15:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=9964"},"modified":"2020-11-01T08:58:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T15:58:31","slug":"horseradish-fiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2020\/11\/horseradish-fiber\/","title":{"rendered":"Horseradish fiber"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I learned about making horseradish cordage from Sally Pointer. She has a YouTube <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ebYZidfmn-0\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> that shows how to process the fresh leaves and how to make the cord. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to spend that much time scrapping horseradish leaf spines to expose the fiber. But I do have a lot of horseradish &#8211; too much, I think &#8211; in the garden. While digging up roots this morning, I noticed the natural separation of fibers on the old decaying stems. Maybe if I just left it out all winter, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have a pile of almost useable fiber in the spring? Giving it a try. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_1502.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_1502.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_1502-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_1502-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_1502-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_1502-320x320.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Root and decaying stem, naturally separating into fibers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_1498.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_1498.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_1498-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Another view of the fibers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_1499.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_1499.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_1499-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Leaves piled up outside to decay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If we get a bit more warm weather, I might remove the leaf material and just leave the stalks. That might make it easier to contend with the pile next spring or summer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think this is called winter retting. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m new to all this, but it feels very connected to my heritage. And to seasonal cycles. Good feelings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned about making horseradish cordage from Sally Pointer. She has a YouTube video that shows how to process the fresh leaves and how to make the cord. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to spend that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[358],"tags":[415,414],"class_list":["post-9964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-string","tag-cordage","tag-horseradish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9965,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964\/revisions\/9965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}