Mushroom Color Atlas

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!

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)

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.

The logo is amazing. It's only 3 simple shapes - circle, elipse, & triangle - yet it feels like a 3D mushroom.

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.

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.

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.

Fascinating the range of effects available by printing using plants e.g. see https://wendyfe.wordpress.com/plants-for-eco-dyeing-and-eco-...

This is absolutely beautiful.

I’m tempted to make a color palette out of this spectrum for my plotting library! A “fungi” palette

Brilliant website design. Blazingly fast and useful even while still loading

No notes, this is cool as fuck.

The mushroom illustrations are gorgeous. Does anyone know what this style of drawing is called and where/how can one study it.

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

This is super cool. As another commenter said, I'd like to see this for other natural dyes (onion skins, walnuts, etc).

I wish more of the web was like this treasure trove. The nearest experience is a beautiful book.