[HN Gopher] Mushroom Color Atlas
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Mushroom Color Atlas
Author : gaws
Score : 321 points
Date : 2024-11-07 17:12 UTC (1 days ago)
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| 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.
|
| 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 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.
| bubblyworld wrote:
| I 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 wrote:
| FYI it is also available as a book!
| TheGoodBarn wrote:
| There's a YouTube channel where a guy does this with his native
| flora, it's pretty awesome:
|
| https://youtube.com/@justinthetrees?si=FCKrfjddLS7f8U2i
| 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
| agos wrote:
| it's really slow on Safari, I wonder why
| 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.
| james_david wrote:
| What a beautiful idea!
| 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.
|
| 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!
| Ccecil wrote:
| Funny 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.
| :)
| 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.
| melagonster wrote:
| The author wrote a book, so I guess this explains why
| everything are so beautiful and tidy.
| sssilver wrote:
| The mushroom illustrations are gorgeous. Does anyone know what
| this style of drawing is called and where/how can one study it.
| ljsprague wrote:
| I believe you would call that "pen and ink."
| 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
| joe8756438 wrote:
| Love 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 wrote:
| I 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 wrote:
| Fascinating the range of effects available by printing using
| plants e.g. see https://wendyfe.wordpress.com/plants-for-eco-
| dyeing-and-eco-...
| fhfjfk wrote:
| The logo is amazing. It's only 3 simple shapes - circle, elipse,
| & triangle - yet it feels like a 3D mushroom.
| Suppafly wrote:
| the whole design of the website and such is all really good.
| kure256 wrote:
| Thats 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.
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