Growing your own clothes? (material)

[Brian.Pearson]

"I had a conversation with a biologist who raised the idea of growing a garment in a laboratory," she told the BBC.


In her workshop in London, she is doing just that.


Using a recipe of green tea, sugar, bacteria and yeast she is able to 'grow' a material which she describes as a kind of "vegetable leather".

[plwhit]

Why grow leather? Just kill a lamb or cow and wear the skin....

[kremit]

That's great! Grow some pants with that and we are set!

[Tek_Freek]

I see advantages to both men and women here.

Women - Your clothes wear out and fall apart in five years so you get your new wardrobe on a regular basis.

Men - You don't have to move some of your clothes out of the closet because she won't throw anything out. "I'll lose some weight so I can wear that again." " That will be in style at the beginning of the next millennium. I can't get rid of it!"

And in a time of crisis you'll have a ready food supply.