Lichen dye

Creating Lichen Dyes ( Letharia Vulpina or Wolf Lichen): Lichen: I pass it endlessly when hiking in the woods. They grow on rocks and hangs from trees. It covers branches on the forest floor. It's everywhere if you take a moment to focus. But what is lichen exactly? They are not plants. They are a symbio…

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“I find myself inspecting little granules as it were on the bark of trees little shields or apothecia springing from a thallus such is th...

My first attempt at dyeing with lichens proved troublesome . Curiously, more people have read that post than any other, so it was my most...

Wool dyed with Wolf lichen My brother and I are working on a special monthslong video project focused on my Mom and the story behind her role in creating the first mushroom dye book, written by Mir…

Dyeing with lichen differs from the ”normal way” of plant dyeing. It’s kind of like making a trifle. I have tried dyeing with lichen before, but I used the kind you find in trees and I found that t…

First a disclaimer: no pennies were harmed in the process of dyeing this fabric. Craft of the Dyer: Colour from Plants and Lichens by Nova Scotia dye expert Karen Leigh Casselman is my main dye bible. Most of the dye recipes are for plants found in North America, but Casselman offers two offbeat mineral dye recipes with copper pennies and clay as the dyestuff. This summer I'll try the clay recipe which is very messy. Copper penny blue was manageable in my laundry room. Dawn MacNutt adapted…

Most of you will recognize this widespreading lichen in bright yellow. If it grows in shade the colour is more grey green or greeny bluish. It grows on rocky surfaces, tree barks, pavements, timber…