Lichen Dyes: Xanthoria After a particularly windy night, I took a short walk along the Canal near our house. The wind had knocked down a lot of tree branches that were covered […]
Lichen Dyes: Xanthoria
Fungi Dye Sarcodon
Fungi Dye: Sarcodon inbricatus A few weeks ago, I discovered what looked like Sarcodon imbricatus (that grow under pine trees) or Sarcodon Squamosus (that grow under spruce trees) fungi growing amongst the […]
Smelly Dye Day: Birch Bark
Smelly Dye Day: Birch Bark Today’s plant dye vats are a bit smelly. Partly due to the mordants I have used and partly to a long fermentation (mostly because I forgot about […]
Dyeing with Logwood
Dyeing Plant Fibres with Logwood Logwood or Haematoxylon Campechianum comes from the heartwood of the logwood trees that grow in Mexico and Central and South America. Logwood can produce rich deep aubergine […]
Fungi Dye Hapolopilus rutilans
Fungi Dye: Haplopilus rutilans Hapilopilus rutilans Mushroom Dye Hapalopilus rutilansFI: OkrakaapaSW: lysticka Post Views: 3
Fungi Dye: Boletopsis Grisea
Fungi Dye: Boletopsis Grisea Boletopsis grisea Mushroom DyeFI – SudenkaapaSW -tallgraticka Boletopsis grisea – Fungi dye can produce blue colours Post Views: 1
Fungi Dye: Phaeolus schweinitzii
Fungi Dye: Phaeolus schweinitzii Phaeolus schweinitzii – Mushroom DyesKarhunkääpä (FI) Phaeolus schweinitzii – Fungi dye produces Yellow and gold colours Post Views: 3
Fungi Dye: Pisolithus arhizus
Pisolithus arhizus Fungi Dye Pisolithus arhizus – Mushroom DyeFI – Hernekuukunen Pisolithus arhizus – Fungi dye produces Brown and gold coloursAlso known as the Dyeball Post Views: 1
More Natural Dyeplants
More Natural Dye Plants I haven’t tried most of these, but have heard that they produce colour. Post Views: 1
How to Paint a Warp
How to Paint a Warp While you can paint warps while on the loom, that sounds too messy for me.This is a method that I learned while taking a workshop with Eileen […]
