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Mushroom Color Atlas
- sssilver 2y agoThe mushroom illustrations are gorgeous. Does anyone know what this style of drawing is called and where/how can one study it.
- ljsprague 2y agoI believe you would call that "pen and ink."
- steve_adams_86 2y agoThis 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)
- quitit 2y agohttps://www.mycopigments.com/ 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/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7277368/
- steve_adams_86 2y agoRight, lichens are a big one. Thanks for the link!
- anonporridge 2y agoJust don't eat any unless you're certain it's safe. You won't get poisoned just from touching any mushrooms. One interesting gotcha that regularly kills people, is that there are some look-a-like species between Eurasia and North America, where one is edible and the other is poison. Apparently is fairly common in Washington state for eastern European immigrants (cultures where mushroom foraging is common) to die this way, because they eat something that looks familiar to them.
- bubblyworld 2y agoI believe you're talking about straw mushrooms (volvariella sp.) vs death caps (amanita phalloides). They are very similar to the untrained eye (and both can vary in appearance a lot from one spot to the next). One of the tells for amanitas it that they have an egg-like "volva" that you can find in the dirt just underneath the mushroom's stem if you dig a little. But volvariella species have this too... spore prints are one way to differentiate if you're patient. But yeah, second that you can handle toxic mushrooms with no problems unless you swallow them.
- nom 2y agoFYI it is also available as a book!
- TheGoodBarn 2y agoThere’s a YouTube channel where a guy does this with his native flora, it’s pretty awesome: https://youtube.com/@justinthetrees?si=FCKrfjddLS7f8U2i https://youtube.com/@justinthetrees?si=FCKrfjddLS7f8U2i
- su 2y agoVery 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.
- culi 2y agoBrilliant website design. Blazingly fast and useful even while still loading
- agos 2y agoit's really slow on Safari, I wonder why
- jboggan 2y agoI 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.
- james_david 2y agoWhat a beautiful idea!
- archermarks 2y agoThis is super cool. As another commenter said, I'd like to see this for other natural dyes (onion skins, walnuts, etc).
- Ccecil 2y agoI 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.
- antx 2y agoOh 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!
- Ccecil 2y agoFunny you mention it. I made Nocino back in June. Green walnuts kept falling and I said "I wonder what people do with these?" First 2 hits on a search were Nocino and pickled walnuts...I chose the former. :)
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- yogurtboy 2y agoNo notes, this is cool as fuck.
- Theodores 2y agoI wish more of the web was like this treasure trove. The nearest experience is a beautiful book.
- melagonster 2y agoThe author wrote a book, so I guess this explains why everything are so beautiful and tidy.
- j_bum 2y agoThis is absolutely beautiful. I’m tempted to make a color palette out of this spectrum for my plotting library! A “fungi” palette
- joe8756438 2y agoLove this. Similar info to a book I picked up a while back called: the rainbow beneath my feet. the authors of that book have a lot of really good identification and reference books on mushrooms. dying with natural materials in general: brace yourself for lots of tan
- krajzeg 2y agoI love that this is on today's internet, and as its own site, not as an account in somebody's garden. Uniquely tailored to what it is trying to do and oozing with personality, but professional in presentation. I have zero interest in mushrooms or dying fabrics, and yet, I can't help and be infected by this site's enthusiasm. Great way to start a day!
- daverol 2y agoFascinating the range of effects available by printing using plants e.g. see https://wendyfe.wordpress.com/plants-for-eco-dyeing-and-eco-printing/ https://wendyfe.wordpress.com/plants-for-eco-dyeing-and-eco-...
- fhfjfk 2y agoThe logo is amazing. It's only 3 simple shapes - circle, elipse, & triangle - yet it feels like a 3D mushroom.
- Suppafly 2y agothe whole design of the website and such is all really good.
- kure256 2y agoThats Excellent! I did not know that you can make dye from mushrooms - I come from central Europe and we do go mushrooming - we call that mushroom hunting. My family goes mushrooming in the woods with the kids and spends time together. It's a good way to spend time. Afterwards, the mushrooms are used to prepare food. Apart from food, I know that the poor people used to make hats and other things out of mushrooms. I read somewhere that they also used them as building material.