Textile mushrooms

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2019 Topic 13: Mushrooms Hello everyone, Keren here with a fun-gi topic (I'll try and keep corny puns to a minimum! ). Mushrooms really get a bad rep and many of us limit our usage of them to the good old button mushroom, but beyond that there's a magical world that often seems like someone has dreamed them into existence. Maybe like me, you didn't realise that there are 15000 types of wild mushroom in the UK alone. They have a unique shape and provide great sources of both nutrition and…

Amanda Cobbett suspends a singular moment in the fleeting lives of fungi by stitching their likeness in thread. The textile artist photographs and gathers specimens that she brings back to her Surrey Hills-based studio, where she finds fibers to match pale green lichens and golden chanterelles. Using a free-motion embroidery technique on a sewing machine,Continue reading "Embroidered Sculptures Recreate Lifelike Mushrooms, Lichen, and Fungi in Thread"