[HN Gopher] Mushroom Color Atlas
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Mushroom Color Atlas
Author : gaws
Score : 127 points
Date : 2024-11-07 17:12 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.mushroomcoloratlas.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.mushroomcoloratlas.com)
| steve_adams_86 wrote:
| This 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.
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| Actually a lot of these mushrooms can be found around where I
| live. I'll have to go on some hunts before winter!
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| 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 wrote:
| 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/
| steve_adams_86 wrote:
| Right, lichens are a big one. Thanks for the link!
| anonporridge wrote:
| Just 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.
| nom wrote:
| FYI it is also available as a book!
| su wrote:
| Very 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.
| hammock wrote:
| https://shop.winefolly.com/collections/posters/products/colo...
| greggsy wrote:
| I would love to know if there's a wine equivalent of Modernist
| Cuisine
| culi wrote:
| Brilliant website design. Blazingly fast and useful even while
| still loading
| jboggan wrote:
| I 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.
| archermarks wrote:
| This is super cool. As another commenter said, I'd like to see
| this for other natural dyes (onion skins, walnuts, etc).
| Ccecil wrote:
| I 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.
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| I will keep my eye out for the mushrooms needed this fall to do
| this method too.
| antx wrote:
| Oh 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!
| yogurtboy wrote:
| No notes, this is cool as fuck.
| Theodores wrote:
| I wish more of the web was like this treasure trove. The nearest
| experience is a beautiful book.
| sssilver wrote:
| The mushroom illustrations are gorgeous. Does anyone know what
| this style of drawing is called and where/how can one study it.
| j_bum wrote:
| This is absolutely beautiful.
|
| I'm tempted to make a color palette out of this spectrum for my
| plotting library! A "fungi" palette
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