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Sarcodon fuscoindcum: Everything about this toothed purple. mushroom Unlike is distinct cap and stem, but has a similar ferny a similar has but stem, and cap distinct smell and grows on the ground near conifers. With care, this mushroom can produce purple and blue dyes. High pHblues. will bring out the Identifying Dye With their unique pigments, unique their With mushrooms offer natural brilliant Mushrooms range of colors. dyers a are the fruiting bodies of fungi,when so collectedmushrooms are a sustainable responsible and source protein with fibers. of color care, for local the of some lists pamphlet This mushrooms that are richest pigments. in dye Most mushroom dyes will give color by achieved to be can colors wool Different without anypre-mordanting mordants. orwith alum co-mordanting or iron (includingpots) rusty and extracted in a high pH dye bath. some colors are best Mushrooms on Lopez and other gments (in the caps). gments ts are toxic, and they affron gilled ones. is a huge genus of mushrooms, bright gilled webcaps:

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Cortinarius semisanguineus, Cortinarius but the ones to dyers are the small of interest ones with non-slimy caps and bright colored gills. All of the dye cor all yield shades of red, purple, and orange, even the yellow and s can be separatedStems from caps to concentrate the redder pi (Dyer’s Polypore)

Phaeolus schweinitzii orange This and large polypore yellow grows on bright stumpsthe are ofroots and conifers. edges Whengrowing it is young, the and the pore surface (it has pores rather than gills) is yellow green. The texture is spongy but tough. out Apolypore bring strong can will dye pot produce mushroom,depending on this iron apH, the rangeadditionand a rusty of in age. of mordants Alone colors itdyeing produces a rich yellow; greens.