This is so incredible. My friend's mom loves dying wool with natural pigments (she even gets her wool from local alpacas!) and she'll go crazy for this. She has wanted a blue/green for a while and it turns out there's one that actually grows around us.
Actually a lot of these mushrooms can be found around where I live. I'll have to go on some hunts before winter!
edit: It would be cool to see something like this for other materials like barks and leaves. As teenagers we used to go around the woods finding her all kinds of weird stuff to dye things with... usually while hunting for our own mushrooms (not for dying things)
I made some Lichen dye from local shield lichen last spring. Still have it in a jar and need to test but it is supposed to be a reddish brown.
Also, I processed a bunch of Black Walnuts this month and I hear if you save the water used in the processing it makes a great stain/dye. It seemed to stain the concrete really well on the porch where the squirrels were dropping a lot of the husks too.
I will keep my eye out for the mushrooms needed this fall to do this method too.
Oh yeah, walnut is a great dye. No need for mordant, too. And everytime I drink nocino (an italian liqueur made with unripe walnuts), I'm wondering what my insides look like, haha!
My first thought when I saw these pigments was about wine colors.
A similar website for wine, showing different hues, would be really interesting. It could show the range from light whites to deep reds and how each color matches the type of wine.
This is so incredible. My friend's mom loves dying wool with natural pigments (she even gets her wool from local alpacas!) and she'll go crazy for this. She has wanted a blue/green for a while and it turns out there's one that actually grows around us.
Actually a lot of these mushrooms can be found around where I live. I'll have to go on some hunts before winter!
edit: It would be cool to see something like this for other materials like barks and leaves. As teenagers we used to go around the woods finding her all kinds of weird stuff to dye things with... usually while hunting for our own mushrooms (not for dying things)
https://www.mycopigments.com/ also does lichen, and has plenty of guides and resources.
Just a heads up however to be mindful about toxicity of the mushrooms you select, however generally speaking the dyed end product is safe. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7277368/
Right, lichens are a big one. Thanks for the link!
FYI it is also available as a book!
I made some Lichen dye from local shield lichen last spring. Still have it in a jar and need to test but it is supposed to be a reddish brown.
Also, I processed a bunch of Black Walnuts this month and I hear if you save the water used in the processing it makes a great stain/dye. It seemed to stain the concrete really well on the porch where the squirrels were dropping a lot of the husks too.
I will keep my eye out for the mushrooms needed this fall to do this method too.
Oh yeah, walnut is a great dye. No need for mordant, too. And everytime I drink nocino (an italian liqueur made with unripe walnuts), I'm wondering what my insides look like, haha!
I have the book this site is based on and it's beautiful. My wife is a quilter and we plan to make a quilt from our local foraging.
Very cool website.
My first thought when I saw these pigments was about wine colors. A similar website for wine, showing different hues, would be really interesting. It could show the range from light whites to deep reds and how each color matches the type of wine.
https://shop.winefolly.com/collections/posters/products/colo...
I would love to know if there’s a wine equivalent of Modernist Cuisine
This is super cool. As another commenter said, I'd like to see this for other natural dyes (onion skins, walnuts, etc).
Brilliant website design. Blazingly fast and useful even while still loading
No notes, this is cool as fuck.
I wish more of the web was like this treasure trove. The nearest experience is a beautiful book.