Experiments

Several months ago I received a really sweet letter from a woman I have never met named Amy. It was titled “indirect impacts, circling back to yo...

Gearing up for a flurry of Fibershed classes I find myself inspired to test out some alternatives to commercial mordants. As a long time user of ...

Dyeing with mushrooms is a relatively new practice that gained popularity in the 1970s, thanks to the experimentation and publications of Miriam ...

Left to Right: Umbilicaria mammulata lichen with alum and iron; Hydnellum ceruleum alum and iron; H. ferrugineum alum and iron; H. pineticola s...

After numerous occasions of accidental fiber felting, the idea of dyeing unspun wool has made me a little nervous. But over the course of the past...

There are three mushroom dye reference books that I use on a regular basis. Mushrooms for Color, by Miriam C. Rice; Rainbow Beneath My Feet, by Ar...

Sometimes good things come to those who wait. Umbilicaria dyed wool Last spring  the Pacific Northwest suffered some severe ice storms that brou...