SHROOMWORKS

Who but another mushroom dyer would get excited about what appears to be bits of slime interwoven with purple intestines? Just look at that colour! I had to grab a shot of this straight out of th...

https://shroomworks.com/2024/10/25/thats-what-i-call-purple/

The mushrooms are back, the collecting bag is coming home full after each foray, and soon my dyepots will be going again! After a couple of years of drought that sent the mushrooms into hiding, i...

https://shroomworks.com/2024/10/20/were-back/

The fear has ended: the mushrooms are coming back! Two years of frightening summer drought resulted in very few mushrooms, but now, with rains throughout the summer and abundant rainfall these pa...

https://shroomworks.com/2024/09/25/welcome-back-little-beauties/

You may have noticed that I’ve written very few posts over the last couple of years, mostly because there’s been little for me to write about. The last two summers in this part of the world w...

https://shroomworks.com/2024/09/06/the-hiatus-is-over/

Gentle readers: It’s been far too long since I’ve posted about my dyepot adventures, primarily because it’s been far too long since our area (the temperate rainforest of coastal British Col...

https://shroomworks.com/2023/08/01/changes-are-in-the-works/

And that’s how we wish all our accidents to be, right? The colours that resulted on this wool roving were not at all what I expected, and at first inexplicable. After all, this came out of a Hy...

https://shroomworks.com/2020/12/02/a-happy-accident-2/

We were blessed this spring and summer with a lot of rain (not everyone in this community felt blessed, thus labelling themselves non-mushroomers), which led to an abundance of Tapinella atrotome...

https://shroomworks.com/2020/09/10/temperamental-tapinella/

This was an unintended experiment with unintended—and happy!—results. I’m not yet finished with it, but since many mushroom dyers are finding and dyeing with Hypomyces lactifluroum (Lobster...

https://shroomworks.com/2019/09/25/crazy-lobster-colour/

Last year’s mushroom season was poor, by our rainforest standards anyway, with the result that I felt more inclined to spend my studio time repurposing thrift-shop clothing treasures than stand...

https://shroomworks.com/2019/09/15/firing-up-the-dyepots/

This might have been a good year for Sarcodon fuscoindicus—Violet Hedgehog—had the spot where I can usually hope to find a dozen or more good specimens (which happens to be at the side of a l...

https://shroomworks.com/2019/01/16/one-sarcodon-dyepot/