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24 Sep '12, 3pm

Wish you could "grow" your own clothes? All you need is a bathtub's worth of sweetened green tea, yeast, and bacteria

Wish you could "grow" your own clothes? All you need is a bathtub's worth of sweetened green tea, yeast, and bacteria

can conjure clothing out of thin air. No, wait, that’s not entirely accurate. She’ll need at least a couple of bathtubs, some yeast, a pinch of bacteria, and several cups of sweetened green tea. Lee, who is a senior research fellow at the School of Fashion & Textiles at Central Saint Martins in London, is the brains (and brawn) behind BioCouture , an experiment in growing garments from the same microbes that ferment the tasty caffeinated beverage.

Full article: http://www.ecouterre.com/u-k-designer-grows-an-entire-war...

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