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The 'Mushroom Color Atlas' Captures the Palette and Potential of Fungi
03.12.2024 - 22:53 / atlasobscura.com
In Trout Lake, a small community in southwest Washington, the peaks of nearby volcanoes and canopies of old-growth forests draw the eyes up. But when Julie Beeler sets out into the surrounding woods, her gaze points downward.
Beeler, an artist, describes her home as a “fungal paradise.” Here, mushrooms are her muse. Hundreds of species of fungi grow throughout the Pacific Northwest, feeding upon the consistent rain of the damp forests. Each fall, the prime season for the edible mushrooms that attract foragers and foodies, Beeler ventures into the woods as often as possible—armed with her collecting basket, rain gear, navigation device, and, occasionally, her dog. But Beeler doesn’t set out for food; she’s in search of color.
Beeler has spent the last decade developing foraged mushrooms into dyes and pigments. Drawing upon her background as an interaction designer, she first shared these recipes in 2021 in the form of the Mushroom Color Atlas, which she recently released as a book.
To Beeler, these natural dyes provide a “radical” alternative to the synthetic versions widely used in the fashion industry. Besides offering shades ranging from brilliant blues to earthy oranges to royal purples, Beeler hopes these mushroom-derived dyes refocus people’s attention to the oft-ignored fungi kingdom that lives beneath their feet.
“What is happening there—that’s responsible for powering everything I see,” Beeler says of the natural world. “We seldom think about that.”
Compared to plant- and animal-derived dyes mushrooms have little historical documentation of their use as a dye source. When she was starting to experiment with fungi dyes, Beeler had few sources to reference until her curiosity led to a mushroom color pioneer.
Miriam Rice started using mushrooms for color in the late 1960s and early ’70s after discovering that the sulfur tuft mushrooms that grow in Northern California turned plain wool a bright yellow. She began experimenting with other mushrooms she found, copublishing books on mushroom dyes, pigments, paper, and crayons with her longtime illustrator and collaborator, Dorothy Beebee.
Rice and Beebee’s work inspired much of the mushroom dye activity occurring today, according to Alissa Allen, a naturalist, textile artist, and founder of Mycopigments. But because their findings were restricted to local species, plenty of opportunities for discovery remain.
“Everything that has been published is based on Miriam and Dorothy’s work, so anything outside that is pioneering information,” Allen says.
Beeler began her own experimentation after encountering Rice’s work in 2013. She worked with the mushrooms found in her local forests, like the anise-scented sweetgrass hydnellum and the lobster mushroom,
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