Julie Beeler has set up this great web resource called Mushroom Color Atlas https://mushroomcoloratlas.com/, in which she explores twenty eight different specied of dye mushrooms. All the website is so beautiful, well programmed, illustrated and documented, it is a true delicacy, I encourage you to take a view.

I also took the list of species to included them in the Tinctorial Collection https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/tinctorial-collection. Twelve of these species were new to the project and I didn't find three of them: Hapalopilus nidulans (Hapalopilus rutilans is accepted species in GBIF), Hydnellum fuscoindicus (an errata for Hydnellum fuscoindicum, which is not either) and Hydnellum suaveolens.

Tinctorial Collection gather all the species you observe on this group as individual observations. So, the collection changes from individual specimens to species, so that anyone can see which of this collection of species is around their place. From time to time I will look for your latest observations to find which new species we didn't observe before and add them to the Tinctorial Collection project. Once again I thank you all for the interest you are showing with this project, and I hope now enjoy being part of it in your iNaturalist walks :)

I participated on the City Nature Challenge 2018, in Madrid, Spain. Our observations are on a similar application called Natusfera (http://natusfera.gbif.es/projects/biomaraton-madrid-cnc-2018), so I put there a total of 182 observations made in different parks in Madrid.

And also many of them were taken on the community garden in which I participate. There I grow some dye plants, such as Hopi Black Dye sunflowers, woad, marigolds, cosmos sulphureus or coreopsis tinctoria. All these observations about dye plants are now also on this project. They are 22 new observations of 19 different species. Some are cultivated and some wild, and altough I read a lot about some of them never used them O_o.

But this project is not about my practice, but about watching and learning from others, so I hope you find them useful. There are some sprouts of woad, sunflowers or sorghum. If you, like me, are eagering to see your plants grow, and don't remember which one was what, you will find useful to see how the little plants are like :).

Finally, I encourage you to show off your own dye garden, or the species you forage (remember you can obscure the coordinates of your observations, you don't need to share your home location). Don't be shy :)

This project is not only for dyeing materials, but for all kind of related organisms with textile arts. But also I think will be very useful to identify and share information about dye plants, or dye mushrooms, which use to be very unknown for all of us.

Although I'm using the same nickname I have in a fb page, I prefer using a different name here, and also not related with any other group, or forum, to make it as global as possible, and for everyone to feel is yours, too.

Tinctorial resembles latin tinctoria, tinctorius, tinctorum... you can see in many plants that are traditionally used for deying, as Indigofera tinctoria, Carthamus tinctorius or Rubia tinctorum, to name one of each. All related to the craft of dyeing, and the people who dyes.

So, I hope you feel welcome, that you like this new project and start sharing information about your observations!