Monday, September 19, 2011

GROW your own fabric

Suzanne Lee, a fashion designer, has learned to grow her own fabric using tea, sugar, and microbes. Over the course of a few days in a grow bath, a pale, skin-like fabric is grown on the surface of the mixture. The fabric is dried flat or molded in a three dimensional form.

Suzanne's TED talk:


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