Mushroom Paper Bowls 

Andreya Marks Designs; artistAndreya Marks Designs; artist


Mushroom dye classes and paper making workshops are offered through the Natural History Museum in Santa Barbara, California.
Please contact for specific dates: andreya@mcn.org
For other areas, please go to www.sonic.net/dbeebee

It's a wonderful adventure to go out into the
forest to gather Polypore mushrooms, shelf fungi,
protruding horizontally from logs and dead trees.
Remember t
hat small ones make
the smoothest paper
.


After you have returned home, and delighted in a mushroom meal made from your freshly picked edible fungi, you can put your polypore trophies into a blender and make a slurry, as fine as possible before overheating your blender. Different mushrooms at varying ages make many shades and hues of colors.

Eventually, you will have filled numerous separate jars with pulp of multiple colors. You don't need to add anything else. The fungi is complete, containing linguine that binds all fibers.

With the help of a strainer, you can sieve the pulp, and what remains are the fibers that you can shape into anything you like, sculpture or, in this case, a multi colored mushroom paper bowl.

 


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