Return of the Butt Rot, Phaeolus Sweinitizii, 2009.This was my first venture into the woods in quite some time, as my foot has been f......! unfortunately, but today, managed a forage and voila, Butt Rot. It was a young, spongy, still vibrant butt rot, and so I chopped it up, put it into a pot of hot water, cooked it for several hours, strained, and added the above silk/wool, and kid mohair, both which were unmordanted. It turned a lovely yellow, but who needs more yellow, not I apparently, so I let it soak, not cooking the wool for several hours, then lifted the wool, added one quarter teaspoon of iron, with l tsp of cream of tartar, which is suppose to even out the iron results, and it turned a wonderful green almost immediately...Left it for an hour or so, then rinsed...I do have alkaline water at 8 and so this does influence my dyeing..I just use it anyway , and allow for that alkalinity, not being a purist it doesn't matter to me, and it is easier for me out of the tap...not that I am doing a research paper on this subject so 8 alkalinity is okay for my needs...so if using this recipe you might want to take this into account...or not....
]phaeolus schweinitzii....fresh picked and more to come as we found young ones budding forth at the base of other fir trees
2 comments:
Cedar, I love that green, thank you for the recipe.. it might be higher pH in your water than in ours which is why I haven't had such a gorgeus color. Have to try again:)
thanks Leena for the compliments...I love that green, the ph is so alkaline because we have a deep well with limestone way under the ground and this butt rot was fairly fresh and gave a great gold at first before the iron....good luck
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