You can use the lichen punctelia rudecta + some urine for natural purple dye. Absolutely shits on tyrian purple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxi2Up7YhM4

Oh, awesome!! Funny how urine is so commonly used in dyeing.... I wonder how consumers feel about that but also maybe they don't need to know lol

Very interesting, thanks for link!

I got a cloudflare error trying to access the site, but WaybackMachine has a copy from August.

http://web.archive.org/web/20220823230908/https://soulslikew...

> Hrm.

> The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL.

I kicked off https://archive.ph/64QGx

hi! I believe substack was down the other evening -- you should be able to view it now!!

Yes this goes way back! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeolus_schweinitzii

I initially misinterpreted the phrase "Using Mushrooms" in the title and my next thought was "Oh, this must be how tie-dye was invented."

Lol good point -- woops! But maybe I should look into how tie-dye was invented for a future post.... it's gotta be mildly interesting.