MUSHROOM DYE WORKSHOP| SUN 12/10|12:30-1:45| FORAGERS TENT| WILDER HERBERTSON (INCLUDES MATERIALS)
In this workshop Wilder Herbert ( THEY/THEM) will teach you how to dye natural fiber yarns using a rainbow of mushroom derived dyes. You’ll learn about the variables that shift color including mordants. Please bring a small protein based fiber garment or piece of cloth (angora, wool, silk, mohair are all great examples) that you want to dye!
More about your Instructor:
Wilder Herbertson (THEY/THEM) spent the first part of their life on Slide Ranch, an environmental education center which uses food as the aperture through which the farm teaches ecological principals. There, they snacked as they walked, but in 2018 they started to integrate wild foods and medicines into their kitchen and home.
They have a specific interest in foraging mushrooms, and have been an active member of the Sonoma Mycological Association since September 2018, and of the Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club since 2022. While foraging edible mushrooms was their doorway into the fungal kingdom, their interest quickly expanded to fungal ecological roles as a whole, dyeing fiber with mushrooms and lichens, and cloning and growing mushrooms at home.
They have a strong passion for a variety of ancestral skills, including fiber arts (spinning, weaving, knitting, and dyeing), hunting and butchering, and making cord from plant materials. They are also developing a personal practice around ancestral lineage healing and intentional animism work.
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