BioCouture: How to grow a dress from a bathtub of tea
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Fibers forming in sweetened tea
As the Director of the BioCouture project, Suzanne Lee, a Senior Reseach Fellow at University of the Arts London, seeks to meld design and cutting edge bio and nano-technologies. The project explores the use of lab grown microbial-cellulose as a source of fabric in clothing production. The cellulose is produced by millions of bacteria grown in bathtubs of sweet green tea. She is partnering with Dr. David Hepworth, Co-Director of the award-winning Scottish biotech start-up, Cellucomp, Ltd.; which pioneers the development of products from new high tech sustainable composites. The results are warmly organic in the way that leather or exotic skins can be, and yet have a distinctly unique aesthetic.
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