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Post by MTRuth on Oct 27, 2021 18:32:19 GMT
This is a wonderful site that has tons of information on it about dyeing with mushrooms. The index page lists the variety of mushrooms, click on the specific mushroom to see the dye colors achieved. Run your mouse over the dye samples to see what mordant and fiber was used. The process page gives you all the details of how the dyeing was done so it can be recreated more easily. www.mushroomcoloratlas.com/mushrooms |
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Post by caterina on Oct 28, 2021 16:40:27 GMT
This is a wonderful site that has tons of information on it about dyeing with mushrooms. The index page lists the variety of mushrooms, click on the specific mushroom to see the dye colors achieved. Run your mouse over the dye samples to see what mordant and fiber was used. The process page gives you all the details of how the dyeing was done so it can be recreated more easily. www.mushroomcoloratlas.com/mushroomsThank you, Ruth, this is very inspiring!! I would like to try dyeing in the future (maybe when the kids will go to university I will have more time.. Only 10-12 more years to go), but I am a bit put off by the idea of artificial dyes. Those dyeing mushrooms seem a lot less daunting, instead! Especially because I could enlist my husband's help with picking them: he loves picking and recognising mushrooms and toadstools, he used to study them under the microscope and be part of a micological association. Perfect natural dyes for us! It can become a family project :-) |
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Post by Ann @ frabjous fabrica on Oct 28, 2021 17:49:46 GMT
I don't know what's used with fungi, but the mordants used with "natural" dyestuff can by just as nasty (or even more sometimes) as synthetic dyes. There's good and bad in both. A bit like vegan versus non-vegan really eg. plastic instead of leather.
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Post by MTRuth on Oct 28, 2021 18:35:46 GMT
Yes, all dyeing processes have some parts that are not environmentally friendly. The mushroom process used mainly iron, tin and alum as mordants for wool.
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Post by MTRuth on Oct 28, 2021 18:37:25 GMT
Oh and Caterina, I meant to say that it sounds like a lovely family project. Nice to already have a "professional" mycologist in the house. Why not teach the kids about natural dyeing and mushrooms too?
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Post by caterina on Oct 28, 2021 21:45:21 GMT
I don't know what's used with fungi, but the mordants used with "natural" dyestuff can by just as nasty (or even more sometimes) as synthetic dyes. There's good and bad in both. A bit like vegan versus non-vegan really eg. plastic instead of leather. You have a point here, but I guess my idea was that with a mushroom dye project I will have my husband's help and interest to boost me, whereas I would be on my own with another kind of textile project not involving mushrooms :-D I am already picturing our retired selves going for a walk together, picking mushrooms and being involved in a dye experiment with them. :-D |
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Post by caterina on Oct 28, 2021 21:55:51 GMT
Oh and Caterina, I meant to say that it sounds like a lovely family project. Nice to already have a "professional" mycologist in the house. Why not teach the kids about natural dyeing and mushrooms too? :-) yes, that is a great idea, as they already know about some edible and some toxic or poisonous mushrooms. Unfortunately, I think that I am going to shelve this project for when we will have a bit more space in which to experiment, and the children will get a bit older and calmer :-) at the moment we do not really have a proper space for dyeing, the flat that we are renting is London-sized, i.e.tiny! But I have shared the idea with my husband, and he is really taken by it, so I guess that it will only be a matter of finding the right moment to go on with it. |
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