The Rainbow Beneath My Feet: A Mushroom Dyer's Field Guide

by Arleen Bessette, Alan Bessette

Overview

A unique and useful reference guide to some of the more common and best color-producing dye mushrooms of North America. The book includes step-by-step instructions to the process from collecting the mushrooms to dyeing the wool. There is an accurate and up-to-date description for each species along with over 200 color photographs. The scope of this work goes beyond the identification of species. The authors provide information about dyeing equipment, mordants, preparing and dyeing the wool, and the dazzling array of colors that can be obtained from mushroom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815606802
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	05/01/2001
Edition description:	1 ED
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Arleen Rainis Bessette is a mycologist and botanical photographer, as well as a clinical psychologist, who has been collecting and studying wild mushrooms for several years. She has authored or coauthored five books including Mushrooms of North America in Color and Wildflowers of New York in Color.

Alan Bessette is a mycologist and professor at Syracuse University. He has published numerous professional papers in the field of mycology and has authored or coauthored twelve books including Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of New York.

Editorial Reviews

Alan Bessette (mycologist; biology, Utica College of Syracuse U.) and Arlene Bessette (mycologist, botanical photographer) have previously published works on mushrooms. Here they present a guide to some of the most common and best color-producing dye mushrooms of North America. Coverage includes descriptions and illustrations of dye mushroom species; a color key to the major groups of dye mushrooms; when and where to collect dye mushrooms; collecting clothing and equipment; preparing wool for dyeing; preserving dye mushrooms; and the dyebath and dyeing the wool. Contains over 200 color photographs. Written in easy-to-follow, nontechnical language. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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