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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The 2018 mushroom season here on the Sunshine Coast was adequate—certainly better than last year’s—but some species were noticeably lacking, particularly Hydenellum. However, I did spot two...
https://shroomworks.com/2018/12/07/hydnellum-caeruleum-harvest-of-two/
The mushrooms are late this year, thanks to another extremely dry summer when the forest floor was scarily crunchy and the community held its collective breath, aware of the devastating wildfires...
https://shroomworks.com/2018/10/06/while-waiting-for-the-mushrooms/
A while ago I was presented with a lovely gift: 150 grams of dried Hapalopilus rutilans from Sweden. I’ve never seen one of these in situ, but they look as if they would be easy to miss—they�...
https://shroomworks.com/2018/06/27/hapalopilus-ever-abundant/
After a break of several months—not a bad thing—I’m back in my cottage studio and the dyepots are heating up. I’ve been playing with ecoprinting and decided it was time to commit to a fin...