How are Amadou hats made?

Each piece of amazing headwear is custom-made from a single mushroom that is boiled and felted into a tulip shape. Amadou is a spongy material derived from Fomes fomentarius (hoof fungus) mushrooms. With each hat made to match a specific size, the slight differences in colors or shape are part of the beauty.

How is Amadou leather made?

Amadou Leather™ – Leather made from mushrooms The mushroom material is grown on recycled sawdust and uses existing edible mushroom cultivation techniques. Products produced from this material are completely compostable at the end of their lifecycle, and turns soil into rich soil. Less sustainable leather options.

How do you prepare a hoof fungus?

Further south the fungus is often hosted by beech (Fagus spp.) The brackets are the fruiting body of the fungus and are perennial. They grow slowly, adding a growth ring each year, and can live up to 30 years. The use of Fomes fomentarius for tinder has been known for a millennia.

How are mushroom hats made?

[The mushrooms] need to be at least two or three years old. Then they boil it and cut it in slices following the mushroom’s natural layers using a sickle. They stretch it by hand and then shape it to the desired hat form.”

What is Paul Stamets hat made from?

It is made of a pair of amadou layers, decorated traditionally with stripes, or flowers, or deers, pines, leaves. This is the type of hat Paul Stamets is wearing.

What is an Amadou hat?

Unisex. Amadou is a spongy material derived from Fomes fomentarius mushrooms, also known as the hoof fungus or tinder fungus. We now plant 20 trees for each item purchased on our website. In partnership with Eden Reforestation Projects.

What is the meaning of Amadou?

amadou. / (ˈæməˌduː) / noun. a spongy substance made from certain fungi, such as Polyporus (or Fomes) fomentarius and related species, used as tinder to light fires, in medicine to stop bleeding, and, esp formerly, by anglers to dry off dry flies between casts.

Is tinder fungus poisonous?

fomentarius use, which could be taken to mean that medicinal use of the fungus is safe, but is hardly a guarantee. The fruiting body is generally described as inedible, but it is not described as poisonous or toxic.

Where does hoof fungus grow?

The hoof fungus can be found growing as a bracket on the trunks of birch trees, and occasionally on other trees. Its fruiting body is hard and shaped like a horse’s hoof, generally no more that 12 cm wide and often almost as deep. The upper surface is normally silvery grey, but can also be brown or almost black.

Where does horse hoof fungus grow?

Habitat and distribution. Fomes fomentarius has a circumboreal distribution, being found in both northern and southern Africa, throughout Asia and into eastern North America, and throughout Europe, and is frequently encountered.

Who made Paul Stamets mushroom hat?

Fabian Imre
This hat was made by Fabian Imre. We manufacture the hat in 5 days, and we ship with DHL Express Worldwide, the package will arrive at your door in 5 to 7 days.

What kind of mushroom is Paul Stamets hat made of?

It is made of a pair of amadou layers, decorated traditionally with stripes, or flowers, or deers, pines, leaves. This is the type of hat Paul Stamets is wearing. And we hope, that more and more mushroom lovers will wear proudly this type of hat.