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Using Mushrooms for Fiber Dyeing
- 0000011111 4y agoYes this goes way back! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeolus_schweinitzii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeolus_schweinitzii
- skellyclock 4y agoYou can use the lichen punctelia rudecta + some urine for natural purple dye. Absolutely shits on tyrian purple. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxi2Up7YhM4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxi2Up7YhM4
- mrelectric 4y agoVery interesting, thanks for link!
- sarajw2011 4y agoOh, awesome!! Funny how urine is so commonly used in dyeing.... I wonder how consumers feel about that but also maybe they don't need to know lol
- sillystuff 4y agoI got a cloudflare error trying to access the site, but WaybackMachine has a copy from August. http://web.archive.org/web/20220823230908/https://soulslikewheels.substack.com/p/lessons-in-mushroom-hunting-and-dyeing http://web.archive.org/web/20220823230908/https://soulslikew...
- metadat 4y ago> Hrm. > The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL. I kicked off https://archive.ph/64QGx https://archive.ph/64QGx
- sarajw2011 4y agohi! I believe substack was down the other evening -- you should be able to view it now!!
- tanseydavid 4y agoI initially misinterpreted the phrase "Using Mushrooms" in the title and my next thought was "Oh, this must be how tie-dye was invented."
- sarajw2011 4y agoLol good point -- woops! But maybe I should look into how tie-dye was invented for a future post.... it's gotta be mildly interesting.