Mushroom Dye Books & Videos
Mushrooms for Dyes, Paper, Pigments & Myco-Stix™
Back by popular demand! This book details the history, development, and science of mushroom arts. It both tells and shows how to extract substances from mushrooms that allow an artist to make textile dyes, paper sculpture or plain paper, watercolors and crayons for drawing. Beebee’s pen and ink drawings appear throughout and color photos of mushroom arts accompany each section. Always eager to expand her knowledge of what she might find in natural substances, Rice devised a way to turn mushroom-extracted pigments into drawing tools, the result being her invention and development of “Myco-Stix™”. This book introduces this new drawing tool to artists everywhere. Mushrooms for Dyes, Paper, Pigments & Myco-Stix™ will delight, instruct, and inspire seasoned artists and newcomers alike. 162 pages, softcover. $36.95
Available for purchase at Fungi Perfecti
DVD set: Mushrooms for Color and Papermaking with Polypores
This DVD presentation, an excellent addition to the book Mushrooms for Dyes, Paper, Pigments & Myco-Stix™ by Miriam C. Rice, combines two videos, produced in 1988 and 1993 respectively. Using extensive footage of Rice working around her home in the mushroom-rich environs of Mendocino, California, Dyeing with Fungi chronicles more than 20 years of her research and offers a fascinating glimpse into her methods for extracting the full spectrum of colors she discovered, as well as the excitement generated by her finds in the fibre arts community worldwide. This history of Miriam Rice’s work is followed by Papermaking with Polypores, a step-by-step guide demonstrated by Rice herself, to the method she developed for making truly gorgeous papers from mushrooms. 40 minutes, NTSC format, region-free. $24.95
Available for purchase at Fungi Perfecti