UK Designer Grows Clothes From Bacteria

An anonymous reader writes "Experimental UK designer Suzanne Lee 'grows' clothes from bacteria. She has developed a method for growing clothing from yeast, a pinch of bacteria, and several cups of sweetened green tea. From this microbial soup, fibers begin to sprout and propagate, eventually resulting in thin, wet sheets of bacterial cellulose that can be molded to a dress form. As the sheets dry out, overlapping edges 'felt' together to become fused seams. When all moisture has evaporated, the fibers develop a tight-knit, papyrus-like surface."

Comments

Wearing living stuff

[Massacrifice]

Obviously, fungi-bacteria cellulose clothes is an acquired taste. It grows on you.

Re:Sure you can wear it, but why would you want to

[elrous0]

If we get to the point where we don't even have paper, I'd say clothing will be the least of our problems.

Personally, all I'll need in the apocalypse are shoulderpads, a mohawk, and a dune-buggy. Shirt and pants are purely optional.

Re:Ew

[naz404]

Support bacteria! It's the only culture some people have!

Re:Sure you can wear it, but why would you want to

[daid303]

Burning hot seat combined with no pants sounds like a BAD plan. (Unless you are in that sort of thing)