At the risk of sounding like I’ve been hitting the Liberty Caps too hard, I thought I’d explore a recent dive into mushroom season. Since last autumn I’ve been on high alert for the mushroom season, which seems in 2021 to have been later. I recently spotted a Guiness World Book of Record-breaking whopper of a Parasol Mushroom that was 9” across the top if it was a day. And the Sulfur Tufts have appeared by the Goat Willow out in the back garden. But what has me zipping about with excitement is the recently learnt fact that mushrooms can be made into paper, and that they have dyeing properties. In an ideal world this means I can print mushroom Cyanotype images on mushroom paper and tone it with a mushroom dye bath.
In the absence of mushroom paper I’m working on the dye bath. Here . in the meantime, are some ‘shrooms.
Mushroom toned with pomegranate. The mushroom bath is next up.
