Artist: Siri Larsen
Medium: Mushroom-dyed US raised & milled superwash merino wool/nylon yarn
Mushrooms: Cortinarius smithii, Hydnellum aurantile, Hydnellum fuscoindicum, Hydnellum caeruleum, Echinodontium tinctorium, Polyozellus multiplex, Hypomyces lactifluorum, Omphalotus sp., Ramaria sp., Boletopsis leucomelaena (?), Phaeolus hispidoides, + ?
Colors: blue, green, grey, lavender, orange, pink, yellow
Size: 12” x 80”
Year: 2024
Handknit scarf knit mostly with yarns dyed over one weekend in Packwood, Washington in October 2024 + a few were dyed in Montana. Pattern is “Fungus Scarf” by Ivy Fiber Co. Premordanted mostly with alum potassium sulphate, some premordanted with ferrous sulphate, one premordsnted with tin, some post-dye shifted with ferrous sulphate, one unmordanted.
