Mushrooms for Color


January 7 - 12, 2008

MYCO-STIX  WORKSHOPS

Making MYCO-STIX with Miriam C. Rice



The little jelly mushroom Psuedohydnum gelatinosum is often used as a binder to mix with mushroom pigments in making Myco-Stix. We used it with dried Echinodontium tinctorium and Gymnopilus spectabilis mushrooms.

 


Miriam demostrating the mixing of the mushroom pigment with slate powder to make Myco-Stix

 

 
  More photos to come!
   

Many thanks for Symposium weaving photos submitted by Trisha Gow, and Stephanie Hoppe.

 

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