The Mushroom Color Atlas is a fascinating and gorgeous book to browse through. I didn’t realize that mushrooms would have such an amazing color variety and that they can be used to make dyes.
Whether you plan to make dye or not this is an interesting read.

Such a cool title! Thank you to NetGalley and Chronicle Books for access to this digital arc! While in college, I performed a project with using my plant to extract natural dyes to die fabric in place of traditional dyes. This title would have greatly impacted the number of mushrooms I would have used to try to gain color, looking back. I don’t think I used any mushrooms to try to extract color from. I believe most of them were root stock plants so it’s very cool to see that color can be derived from mushrooms. as someone who enjoys watercolor art I can see this pairing well with soil based watercolors and it’s a very unique. I am very excited to see how I can incorporate this knowledge into my art! It’s totally a unique title that natural artists will love!

The Mushroom Color Atlas is a wonderful book for nature lover and artists alike. From the first few pages, I could tell that I wanted to have this book in my home collection! I may not be an artist by any means but I found it fascinating how so many different colors can be created by certain fungi. The colors were stunning throughout. I really appreciate that the author added some ecological information about the different fungi as well. The only thing that I felt odd was the placement of the Pigments section that detailed preparation. I would have understood the second section a lot more if that information on had been first.

Review coming soon!

Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the ARC.

Opinions are mine.

This was a really cool book. Basically, it runs through what sorts of mushrooms can be made into what dyes and pigments, and how you do it. Will I start dying things with mushrooms? Turns out it's actually a pretty complicated process, which shouldn't be a surprise, so with my limited space, I likely will not become a master mushroom dyer anytime soon. But it was still a very visually pleasing and interesting book.

This book contains a ton of really useful information, and the design and photography in it is really helpful. The organization by color is really easy to use. This will be a great reference and I'm excited to use the concepts and techniques.

This book is beautiful and fun. I think it would make a great shelf edition, unique coffee table book, or gift for someone who likes mushrooms, foraging, interior design, painting, color theory, etc.

This is a great resource. I’ve been researching this topic for a while for a children’s nature book and project that I have a grant for, so I’ve been reading books on the topic (there aren’t many) and following Facebook groups on the subject. It’s such a fascinating way to create dye and paint, and the colors are gorgeous and so varied once you start adding mordants like tin, iron and soda ash. I would have preferred to have photos of the mushrooms for identification purposes (there are crude drawings and detailed descriptions) and more photos of the steps, plus more detailed instructions for the actual dye and paint making. The bulk of the book is the color swatches for each of the featured mushrooms. There are hundreds of pages of these and it will be an invaluable resource for anyone who uses mushrooms for dyeing.

I read a temporary, self destroying digital ARC of this book for review.

Wonderfully comprehensive with beautiful illustrations and photos! I will absolutely be purchasing this book for myself. The only note I will make is that this is only a book about mushrooms and does not go into lichen dyeing, which is fine.

A gorgeous and beautiful book that introduced me to the beautiful world of mushroom dyes. I had not ever thought about using mushrooms as dye before, and this book took my expectations and ran with them. 5/5

This is a beautiful art book! I could look at these colors forever. I can’t wait to see the pages in person!

I've followed this account on IG and was thrilled that a book was being published! Packed with information and color charts, this beautiful book will be incredibly useful for home dyers, artists and naturalists.