Told husbanana of my plan to ethically harvest lichens for dyeing by raiding people’s woodpiles like a raccoon
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some lichens dye a bright ridiculous yellow and others produce an insane impossible purple
one lichen that produces bright yellow is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letharia_vulpina … and apparently the reason it grows in rings is sapsuckers (birds) peck in rings and open the tree up to lichens where peckedpic.twitter.com/W0R9L3Yd3h
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those are tree scarves
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GORGEOUUUUS. Do people use the dye for wool or other things? (May or may not want to ethically source lichen for knitting...)
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yes! very good for wool/silk, probably also good for linen/cotton if mordanted with metals
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