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This sweater I just finished for my daughter is made of commercial wool dyed with locally foraged mushrooms.
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Beautiful!!!
What skill, both your knitting and dyeing!

I've only dyed with a lichen once but never mushrooms....I never realized their range of color.

 
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Pretty colours!
I've not mastered colour changing yet in knitting. Maybe my next challenge (after socks...)
 
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Lovely!  Are you able to ID the mushrooms used?   If puff balls grow in your part of the world they are well worth trying.  The ones that grow here in Oz produce nice brown/rust and even black.
 
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The purple and green and grayish green are Western Jackolantern, Omphalatos olivascens. The yellow is a variety of rustgills, Gymnopilus species. The rusty orange is old man's beard lichen, Usnea species. No mordants, most mushrooms don't need them.

Our puffballs are white and I don't imagine they give much color. However I have used the Dyer's Puffball or Dead Man's Foot, Pisolithus tinctorius, which isn't an actual puffball, to make a dark chocolate brown.

Colorwork is in some ways easier than socks, though socks are more portable.
 
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