The Fungal Fiber Arts Workshops listed below are just a few of the very many mushroom dye workshops led by members of the IMDI in the USA during the last two decades. These workshops are separate from the International Symposia which are sponsored world-wide by the IFFF. Instructors from the IMDI are invited by local mycological societies, textile arts groups, and community education programs to introduce mushroom dyes, papermaking, and myco-pigments to their interested and enthusiastic constituents.
A fiber arts workshop may last for only a few hours, or up to several days. They are generally planned as an introduction to beginners in the field of fungal dye arts, but all stages of experience are welcomed. Workshops are planned for the time of the year when mushrooms are freshly available in that area, which varies across the USA, as often a part of the educational experience may be a mushroom identification and collecting foray in the woods. All participants return home with many colorful fiber samples, and their own experiment notes – enough learned to continue their own exploration.
The inaugural Mushroom Dye Gathering, held Sunday, October 16 at Pacific Textile Arts in Fort Bragg, CA, was an alchemical exploration into the amazing colors
The SOMA Fiber Arts program was introduced by Miriam C. Rice at the very first SOMA Camp held at the old soccer camp in Mendocino County in
Workshops in Mushroom Dyes, Polypore Papermaking, Felting, Shibori, Eco-Printing, and Coiled Basketry all using mushrooms, were all taught in the Fungal Fiber Arts Program at
Workshops in Dyes, Polypore Papermaking, Felting, Shibori, Eco-Printing, and Coiled Basketry all using mushrooms were all taught in the Fungal Fiber Arts Program…
At Pepperwood Preserve, the Sonoma County Mushroom Dye Workshop in Caifornia, we dyed with fresh mushrooms found in drought-parched Sonoma County.
Sonoma County Mushroom Dyes at Pepperwood Preserve The hunt for fresh mushrooms began for me on a foray the previous day up in the Douglas
FIBER ARTS at SOMA Wild Mushroom Camp Jan 15 ~ 17, 2011 ~ Occidental, CA This year SOMA Wild Mushroom Camp 2011, (sponsored by the
We were gathered at a Taos Wool Festival workshop, eager to explore the possibilities offered by three mushroom species…
“The 3rd Annual Cordova Fungus Festival”was held in August 2009, to which I was again invited, this time to teach classes in “Polypore Paper Making”
“MYCO-STIX” and Mushroom Dyes at the 3nd Annual Cordova Fungus Festival” After all of her research, adventures, and experiences with mushroom dyes and polypore papermaking,
MUSHROOM DYE & FELTING WORKSHOPS at SOMA CAMP Jan 17 ~ 19, 2009 ~ Occidental, CA This year SOMA Camp 2009, (sponsored by the Sonoma
Many fresh autumnal colored “dyers polypores” were found in abundance around Breitenbush Hot Springs – some young with yellow rims, others without. All were broken
TONGASS RAINFOREST FESTIVAL Petersburg, Alaska 2008 MUSHROOM DYE WORKSHOP September 7, 2008 (Poster Design by Annabelle Baker) The Mushroom Dye class was one small part
The 2nd Annual “Cordova Fungus Festival”, to which I was delighted to be invited to teach a 6 hour workshop about Mushroom Dyes, was organized by a group of amateur mycologists from all walks of life in Cordova, Alaska. They do not have any “formal” mushroom club, just an intense interest and focus on fungi. The US Forest Service offices generously provided space to display mushrooms, and hold workshops (with microscopes to use).
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This “Mushrooms for Color” website is sponsored by the International Mushroom Dye Institute (IMDI), founded by Miriam C. Rice in 1985. Miriam believed that people throughout the world would benefit from exploring the full spectrum of color derived from mushrooms.
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