Name: Grow your own clothes
Uploaded: 2011-05-04T14:43:00Z
Duration: 6 min 23 s
Description: Designer Suzanne Lee shares her experiments in growing a kombucha-based material that can be used like fabric or vegetable leather to make clothing. The process is fascinating, the results are beautiful (though there's still one minor drawback ...) and the potential is simply stunning.

Designer Suzanne Lee shares her experiments in growing a kombucha-based material that can be used like fabric or vegetable leather to make clothing. The process is fascinating, the results are beautiful (though there's still one minor drawback ...) and the potential is simply stunning.

Suzanne Lee: Grow your own clothes

Grow your own clothes

Explore the potential of microbial cellulose in fashion, offering sustainable alternatives to traditional materials like cotton and leather.

Envision a future where fashion and furniture are grown from microbes, challenging the norms of production and sustainability.

Exploring microbial cellulose for fashion, this innovative material transforms tea, sugar and microbes into wearable fabric.